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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We must find a more caring solution for <b>asylum</b> seekers, writes Felicity McKay</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SOME of my fellow human rights activists from Amnesty International Denison Action Group and Rural Australians for Refugees held a protest outside Eric Abetz’s office a fortnight ago.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We were requesting that the detention centres be closed and that a heavily pregnant diabetic <b>refugee</b> woman, Golestan Hatami, be allowed to visit Australia for medical care, as delivery of her baby is likely to be complicated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The morning of the demonstration, Senator Abetz made a statement in the Mercury that we should be thanking him, not protesting against him, for the services the Liberal Government performed for <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I do offer my sincere thanks to Senator Abetz and the federal Liberal Government for increasing the intake, and allowing 12,000 more Syrian refugees to settle in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, this does nothing for <b>asylum</b> seekers locked in Australia’s offshore processing centres, hence the point of the demonstration remains.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I cannot speak for other activists, but I am not opposed to offshore processing, I’m just against indefinite detention and the unnecessarily cruel conditions that <b>asylum</b> seekers are subjected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many of us are proud of Australia’s success as a multicultural society, as our nation has previously enjoyed a proud reputation of generosity to refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, people who arrive by <b>boat</b> to claim <b>asylum</b> have been a contentious issue since the first <b>boat</b> arrived from Vietnam in 1976.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since then, various governments have found it easier to resettle larger numbers of refugees from <b>refugee</b> camps than saddle Australia with even a small number of <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Debate about the issue of those who arrive by <b>boat</b> is often shrill, rife with misinformation and many years ago reached a stalemate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I understand the desire of many to protect Australia’s borders, and I agree with Senator Abetz that minimising the deaths at sea is, of course, a wonderful thing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, I believe it is possible to maintain these objectives without subjecting <b>asylum</b> seekers to conditions that, as stated by a United Nations rapporteur, “violate the right of the <b>asylum</b> seekers including children to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’d like to clear up some misinformation about <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>. According to a recent survey by the Scanlon Foundation, 68 per cent of Australians believe <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> are not “true” refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the proportion of <b>asylum</b> seekers who are acknowledged to be refugees hovers at about 90 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This proportion of <b>asylum</b> seekers pass the Australian Security Intelligence Organsiation’s security checks and are found to not be “economic migrants”. If you disagree, it’s a bone that you should pick with ASIO.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another fear that many people hold is that <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving in Australia by <b>boat</b> are a security threat. This risk is very low. The mere fact these people arrive without documentation subjects them to intensive scrutiny, such that counterterrorism expert Dr Michael McKinley stated that the chance of a terrorist gaining access to Australia by <b>boat</b> is “infinitesimally small”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would be much wiser for a potential terrorist to fly into Australia carrying appropriate documentation. This way they avoid scrupulous background checks, and avoid significant risk they will drown at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is important to remember this fact in light of the tragedy in Paris. It is highly unlikely a terrorist would pose as an <b>asylum</b> seeker and come to Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another misguided idea is that <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> are “jumping the queue”. This implies there is a fair, orderly process in which people are accepted as refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As you may know, Australia only accepts refugees interned in <b>refugee</b> camps managed by the <span class="companylink">UN Human Rights Council</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, it facilitates less than 1 per cent of resettlement of the world’s refugees. Only a few countries are part of this resettlement program. Those who are not lucky enough to be resettled through this program may find themselves in transit countries while looking for refuge where the dangers are just as great, albeit different, from which they fled in their county of origin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another confusion may result from the amount of media coverage the issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers receives. It would be easy to perceive the numbers of people arriving by <b>boat</b> to be larger than they are. Due to the natural barriers formed by the vast distance of sea surrounding Australia, Australia has one of the lowest rates of irregular immigration in the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At any one time, the UK has between 310,000 and 570,000 illegal immigrants, while Australia has only about 60,000. The vast majority of these were people who overstayed temporary or tourist visas. In 2011, 4565 of these people were <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>, developed countries host only 14 per cent of the world’s refugees, while the rest are taken in by developing countries closer to sources of conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While there are options for resettlement in third countries for those in our detention centres deemed refugees, all are developing nations, under-resourced and dangerous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About Papua New Guinea, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade claims there is “high levels of serious crime” that “occur in any part of the country”. Hence resettlement in third countries remains a poor alternative.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We need to have a new discussion about how we can minimise the suffering of people asking Australia for refuge who do not have the fortune of going through official outlets, while ensuring that the boats remain stopped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One possibility would be to improve the notoriously poor conditions of Nauru and Manus Island, and discreetly resettle refugees in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Requirements needed for one to be considered a <b>refugee</b> should be reconsidered to ensure nobody is sent back into danger, as has happened on occasion previously. This should be coupled with improvement in conditions of the detention centres. While it is important no one drowns at sea, it is wrong to subject people in our care to harm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A humane solution may be setting up safe houses located at the points boats carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers depart from in Indonesia — a place with adequate healthcare and resources where they could stay as they lodged their <b>asylum</b> claim. Upon entry, they could have a preliminary interview to ascertain they aren’t simply coming to the centre for a free meal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A scenario along these lines may ensure people can apply for <b>asylum</b> without risking their lives by coming to Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The purpose of these suggestions is not to offer a definitive answer, but to start a much-needed conversation.Felicity McKay is a Hobart-based volunteer human rights activist with <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE: <b>Asylum</b> seekers in alleged Sydney crime syndicate A SURVIVOR of the fatal 2010 Christmas Island <b>boat</b> crash is among four former <b>asylum</b> seekers who allegedly shipped millions of dollars of drugs into Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three of the Iranian ­refugees face indefinite ­detention in Australia if convicted, while the fourth has fled the country.FULL REPORT PAGE 9</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As <span class="companylink">UN</span> climate change talks start in Paris, Pacific islanders consider a life on the move. Adam Morton and Tom Arup report.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Micah Puia lives in a shanty town on a dirty beach in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. He is 11 years old, and has lived there all his life.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He sleeps in a raised fibro hut with his grandparents and several cousins, attends second grade at a local school and swims in the mouth of the Mataniko River, alongside the community's cotes of pigs and chooks, and where the waterway dumps into the Pacific Ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to some here, Micah has spent his whole life as a climate change <b>refugee</b>. And he will soon be forced to move.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Expect plenty of debate in coming years over whether this label is justified for Micah and millions of others like him across the globe. But whatever you call those affected by extreme weather and rising seas, displacement of people from developing countries due to natural disasters - particularly in Australia's backyard in the Pacific - is an issue the world has yet to come to grips with.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The community at what is known as Lord Howe Settlement (not to be confused with the Australian island) is small, but has expanded dramatically in recent years. There are now more than 1000 people, crowded in an expanding labyrinth of small buildings that spread between the city's main road and the water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people are Polynesian, hailing from Ontong Java - an outlying atoll about 400 kilometres to the north. What was about half a dozen shacks in the early 1970s gradually grew into a permanent settlement. Now, in the wake of a storm and flood that last year brutalised Honiara, community leaders are questioning its future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some, such as Father Nigel Kelaepa, say both the growth and expected end of the settlement can be linked to climate change triggered by wealthy countries' greenhouse gas emissions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I believe the people here are climate change refugees," the Church of Melanesia priest says. He will attend the United Nations climate summit starting in Paris on November 30, in part to speak about his starring role in a World Vision-funded documentary, Fading Sands.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"On Ontong Java, gardens are struggling with salt intrusion from the sea, so crop yields are getting smaller and smaller, and on top of that you have more mouths to feed - one of the factors that has exacerbated climate change is population growth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Put those together and you have a situation where people are finding it really hard to survive back home. It's not because they are losing their homes and land - it's because they can't find enough to eat. Here, they can.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"But then last year was a new experience for us."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Flooding in April 2014 killed 23 and forced more than 50,000 from their homes. At Lord Howe Settlement, it washed through the community, knocked down buildings and frightened locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Walking along the beach near his home at dusk, Kelaepa says: "We're beginning to be aware that floods of this magnitude are going to be more common, and they're going to be more dangerous than the ones we experienced in the past."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Few would argue that Lord Howe Settlement will need to move at some point. But what the future holds for this community, and others like it, will be touched on only at the margins of the Paris climate summit, which begins on Monday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Estimates of how many people could be displaced due to human-induced climate change are notoriously and necessarily rubbery - in part because warming exacerbates weather events caused by natural factors and, as Kelaepa suggests, population growth is an interacting factor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, it is accepted that more than 26 million people a year were displaced by disasters between 2008 and 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the Nansen Initiative - a global bid to build a "protection agenda" for the people displaced by disasters and climate - on average more than 22 million of these left their homes due to weather and climate-related events. Others had to move due to sea level rise, spreading desertification or environmental damage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Nansen Initiative statement endorsed in Geneva last month by more than 110 countries, including Australia, warns there is "high agreement among scientists that climate change, in combination with other factors, is projected to increase displacement in the future".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What will this mean for Australia?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a recent visit to Kiribati that mostly won attention at home for Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's awkward dad dancing, Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles said he believed Canberra must start thinking about the prospect of one day taking in displaced people from the region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are in a part of the world where Australia has obligations," Marles said. "We are the largest aid donor, for example.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is clear when you tour these islands, and you see how precarious it is here, that it is obvious there are questions about the future of this country."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the government's part, Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop says it recognises that its Pacific neighbours are vulnerable and need practical support to deal with climate change now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She points to $50 million dedicated to climate resilience projects, and Australia's new-won role helping lead the global Green Climate Fund, which she says will help island countries in the region get better access to the billions being dedicated to help the poor cope.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Pacific leaders welcome these steps, some remain sharply critical of ongoing bipartisan support for an expanded coal industry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anote Tong, the outspoken Kiribati president, says the evidence still suggests his country could become uninhabitable. On some islets and atolls, freshwater tables have already been inundated with salt, and erosion is forcing people to move. In the over-crowded capital - years of migration from outer islands has led to a population density greater than Hong Kong - a new road in south Tarawa is being swamped by the ocean before it is finished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Heading further north, flying into the Marshall Islands' capital of Majuro, you are reminded of the tiny margin of error in these countries. At its widest, the land is no more than 300 to 400 metres across.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Piloting a <b>boat</b> towards Majuro's outer atolls - one of which, Anebok, recently disappeared into the ocean - Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum says those who argue that the islands are not sinking are "the equivalent of people running around saying coal is the future of the world".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The islands will reshape, but I will show you trees in the water where there used to be land. People need to wake up to that," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some countries have begun to make contingency plans. Kiribati, for instance, last year bought a 20-square-kilometre piece of land in Fiji. And there are cases where people have felt forced to move within countries because of climate-related disasters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Do they qualify as climate change refugees? Legally speaking, no. Recent court cases in New Zealand brought by citizens of Kiribati and Tuvalu seeking <b>asylum</b> on the grounds they were fleeing climate change were rejected on the grounds they were not being persecuted for their race, religion or nationality. And it is a term that some Pacific leaders have themselves rejected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Jane McAdam, director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International <b>Refugee</b> Law at the University of NSW, says there is an argument for the use of different visa categories, which Tong has said would allow "migration with dignity" by letting people move before they were forced into a position where they require humanitarian help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">McAdam notes that two of the most vulnerable countries in Australia's region, Kiribati and Tuvalu, have a combined population of just 110,000 - less than the annual permanent migration intake of 190,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Citing the work of the Nansen Initiative, she says countries could take several steps to avoid people being displaced and to respond more effectively when they were. Beyond adjusting migration intake, they include introducing policies to help reduce the impact of disasters in advance and assisting with evacuation or humanitarian visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Santa Ana, a small island at the southern end of the Solomon Islands, adaptation is under way. The people in its two major villages of Ghupuna and Nataghera have reported over recent years changes in weather events and seasonal patterns that make life difficult in a part of the world where many are subsistence farmers. Some staple crops no longer grow to the size and quality expected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <span class="companylink">World Vision</span> program, funded by the <span class="companylink">Australian Foreign Affairs Department</span>, has helped improve the harvest for these and other villages by introducing crops that are better able to cope with changing conditions, teaching crop management and rotation techniques, and helping devise evacuation plans should a big wave hit. Locally led committees take responsibility for explaining the basics of climate science, and the steps that help people adapt to the changes they are witnessing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back at the Solomon Islands' Lord Howe Settlement, young Micah Puia has little concept of climate change but has high hopes. His goal is to be a doctor so, he says, "when my mother gets sick I will look after her".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kelaepa hopes his is the sort of story that will resonate in Paris. "This is a real-life case where people probably in the next decade or so will have to move out, will probably lose their homeland. It is no longer safe for us here," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> travelled to the Solomon Islands with <span class="companylink">World Vision Australia</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">16 land in Indonesia JAKARTA: Sixteen <b>asylum</b> seekers who came ashore in West Timor, Indonesia, were reportedly on a <b>boat</b> that Australian authorities towed away from Christmas Island last week. They landed at West Kupang on Thursday night after they ran out of fuel and a local man heard their cries for help. Bangladeshi man Muhammad Anwar, 22, said after meeting Australian authorities they were detained for four days, their <b>boat</b> was destroyed, and they were put on a new <b>boat</b> for the trip to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IS in mosque attack DHAKA: <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> has claimed responsibility for an attack on worshippers at a ­Shiite mosque in northern Bangladesh that killed one and wounded three others. The attackers entered the mosque in Shibganj, 125km north of Dhaka, during early evening prayers yesterday and opened fire on the gathered worshippers before fleeing.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trump: Not mocking NEW YORK: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has denied he was mocking the physical disability of a New York Times reporter during a campaign speech in which he flailed his arms and distorted his speech in an imitation of the journalist. The latest uproar over Trump’s behaviour on the campaign trail was ignited by remarks the billionaire real-estate tycoon and former reality TV star made during a South Carolina rally on Tuesday about the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Forest for MH17AMSTERDAM: A forest is to be planted in a park close to <span class="companylink">Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport</span> to commemorate the victims of downed flight MH17, including 38 Australians. The national monument will comprise 298 trees, one for each of the victims of the ill-fated flight.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Hope rises with son as community tries to throw adversity, division overboard</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TRENT DALTON   </td></tr>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Happy birthday Salim. You turn one tomorrow in a world turned upside down, but maybe if we work all this out right you’ll grow old and grey in a thriving Australia and you’ll tell your grandkids the story of your mum, Fatima­ Abo Tbeek, who was so profoundly grateful to be an 11-year-old Iraqi girl aboard the <b>boat</b> that sank north of Christmas Island in the nation-changing 2001 affair they called “Children Overboard”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Grateful because it brought her the nation that brought her you, the son of a Shia mum and Sunni dad who met and fell in love as neighbours across a suburban­ Sydney fence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He can be anything he wants to be,” Fatima says, smiling down on her son smiling back from his stroller in a singularly perfect momen­t in time on the corner of Haldon and Gillies streets, Lakemba­, the unofficial Muslim capital­ of Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t want him to know anything about difference of relig­ion. That’s one thing I don’t want him to know. It’s not right. He should just live his life and live it the way he wants it.” It was difference that put Fatima­ on that <b>boat</b> to Australia in 2001 with her mother, Fardous Hussani, and more than 200 ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers who would later be falsely accused of throwing their children overboard to secure­ their rescue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She has a photograph of that infamous sinking <b>boat</b> on her phone, the front half of the dubious vessel taking on water, desperate mums, dads and children seeking high ground at the stern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was one of the last three or five people left on it,” she says. “I was scared. I was a child. It was hard, but I got over it.” She got on with it, too, began giving back to the country that saved her life; built a life in the arts, printmaking and painting; and fell in love with Sam, a spraypainter with his own small business, who lived next door to her in Sydney’s west, an improbable love story she knows could only be written in this extraordinary place called Oz.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My husband is Sunni and I’m Shi’ite,” she says. “He’s Lebanese, I’m Iraqi. My family is against it but Sam changed my life.” Fatima says people “think we’re all the same but we’re not”. “You don’t even know who to believe or to trust so I just believe God gave us brains to choose right and wrong, that’s what we’re going to be judged on, not to follow some leader who doesn’t know what’s right and wrong,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’ll teach Salim what the book says, not what the sheik says.” In 2013, The Weekend Australian spent a week in Lakemba talking to locals about the past, present and future of Muslim Australia. Two years on, the future is here and Lakemba is as hopeful as it is hurting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Salim is the embodiment of the hope. The hurt takes longer to find. “I tell you, mate, this country’s going down the f..king gurgler,” says Ziad Hamawy beside his Lebanese mother, sipping a coffee in Al Andalas cafe in the middle of a bustling Haldon Street.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There’s a lot of anxiety. They should dish the Valiums out like lollies here, you know.” Everything and nothing can fuel that anxiety. A concert hall ­attacked 17,000km away. Global politics. Cultural divides. National hatreds. Dumb kids doing dumb things.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Fifteen-year-olds walking around with pistols,” Ziad says. “I been here 50 years. We didn’t have a shooting in a year in the western suburbs; now it’s every fortnight. It’s getting violent, it’s getting fast, drug scene is going up. Mental ­issues, brother. A lot of these ­people don’t get help for their problems, that’s how you get walking bombs everywhere.” But that was just one of 100 points of view in a kaleidoscopic street of vivid reds and golds, blues and greens. Lakemba is a suburb of 15,500 people, 51.8 per cent of whom identify as Muslim and walk the holiest path they can ­beneath the watchful gaze of Allah.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lakemba is a laundrette filled with washed and hanging burkas. Lakemba is four Muslim men in high-vis hammering nails on trestles and planks above the <span class="companylink">Western Union</span> building beside the Hamze Brothers fruit store.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lakemba is the way Con Gogos, a local for 50 years, leans over to his old friend, Bob Boere, 65, and wonders where all the apple pies with cherries on top disappeared to.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And Lemon Delight,” Con says. “An old kind of lemonade I’d get from a delicatessen over the road there. You can’t get Lemon Delight round here now.” Lakemba is Mohamad El ­Charif on his day off, gripping two fresh kebabs at lunchtime. He’s a fly-in, fly-out worker in the Karratha mines of Western Australia. He’s a father of two kids, third-generation Australians, one of whom, a Year 9 girl, Samar, wants to be a police detective when she grows up. He feels his name, ­Mohamad, has become a lightning rod for bigotry and, lately, it’s been wearing him down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I actually went through ­depression because of that,” he says. “I saw a psychologist because of it. I got so angry I couldn’t talk to people any more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t mind my name, but the first thing people think when they hear my name is ‘terrorist’. They judge the book by its cover … Don’t judge the cover, read the book, mate.” He looks up and down ­Haldon Street.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Look around, no one comes here any more,” he says. “Spot the white guy. People used to come here to buy Middle Eastern foods and whatever. No one comes here anymore. They’re scared. It used to be booming here. It’s affecting us. Every time something happens in the news, people say it again: ‘Are we safe here?’ ” At the end of Wangee Road, next door to Lakemba Mosque, Lebanese Muslim Assoc­iation program director Sahar Dandan — one of western Sydney’s most influential female Muslim voices, who lives and breathes the LMA’s “our community, our future” ethos — is busily preparing for a domestic violence awareness event for Muslim women. It’s been a long, hard two years for Sahar since The Weekend Australian last visited her office. “Why do I keep doing what I’m doing?” she asks. “If you can’t see that you’re even making a dent in the conversation, it’s very difficult to keep motivated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t seem to even want to read the news any more. I don’t want to look at all the trolls on the LMA Facebook pages. I don’t want to see the screen shots sent to me of pigs. There’s still this dichotomy of who is seen as Australian and who is outside of that and it’s always­ the Muslim community that can’t belong, don’t have the same values.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m only one person sitting at a desk in southwest Sydney, how am I going to counter that? It’s David and Goliath and it’s a global complexity.” But then she shrugs and leans forward at her desk with the kind of steely glare one might expect from a woman called “AK-47” and “ball crusher” by the few local men at odds with her game-changing efforts to steer her generation away from the grip of apathy and extremism. “How do I contribute positively to my community as an Australian Muslim?” Sahar says. “What are the things that I can do in the very small space that I ­occupy? I’m not going to allow all these people to take that space away from me. I was born in this country. I deserve a space. I will ­occupy that space positively so that, when I leave it, people can say: ‘You know what, that was a beautiful space.’ “We all have that need. I want to leave that space for my children. I don’t want to leave the world in an uglier place for my children. So I keep turning up to work.” Near Lakemba station, 28-year-old University of Technology Sydney marketing tutor Asif Alam speaks of what it’s been like to watch Lakemba youths abandon education because they can’t sustain the levels of work it takes for local and international students to sustain a tertiary qualification.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I now see most of my students working a 20-hours-a-week tax job and a 20-hours-a-week cash job, plus study,” he says. “Fourteen dollars an hour is not enough to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world.” It’s just one of a handful of pressures facing Lakemba youth, he says. Pressure through poverty. Pressure through parents. Pressure through faith. Fertile ground, he says, for extremists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In front of a Bangladeshi supermarket, Asif outlines the road to hell. “First of all, they’re frustrated by their lifestyle,” he says. “They are really frustrated. Maybe they’re not getting enough parental control. When they’re adult, they’re not getting sexual contact. That’s another issue. They rely on more prostitutes and these things, you know. But family is not giving them time enough. They’re not educating them in a proper manner, that’s why they’re not following Koran or Bible or anything, so anybody can manipulate them easily. So they’re brainwashed.” Then a man with a thick white beard who says he isn’t wise or important says something deeply wise and important.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Slow down,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His name is Wasim, a 60-year-old father of two who came to Australia from Lebanon on January 25, 1977. He sits reading in a brown robe on a swivel chair in the Darussala­m Islamic Book Shop opposite an empty Lakemba Hotel. I’d been asking Wasim too many questions. Where do we go from the Paris attacks? Is there a yawning generational divide in modern Muslim Australia? Do you miss your father?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These are all valid questions,” he says. “But the important question to ask first is: ‘Who am I?’ ” He points to his white turban. “Who am I?” he says again. “I’m not this material on my head.” He says these are the days of jahiliyy­ah, ignorance. He says an apple goes rotten squeezed too tight in the hand. This is extremism, he says. Then he stands up on one leg. “Providence,” he says. “Do not worry. It is all predestined but God gave you volition. You are not a feather in the wind. But you are also not out of the control of God, so it’s very delicate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Look, now, I’m standing on one leg. Can I lift my other one now? No, I have limits. We are not creators. We don’t create but we can acquire. We acquire the qualities. You have choice but it’s very delicate.” And he stands there in that bookshop wobbling on one leg.A bright future for Muslim Australia — for one-year-old Salim, for dear old Lakemba — will depend on one thing and one thing only. “Balance,” he says.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnback ‘one incident’ amid Indonesia thaw</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PETER ALFORD   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>396 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Indonesian government has criticised Australia’s latest <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turnback and will demand an explanation from Canberra but seems set on preventing the incident from interrupting a recent thaw in the relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In the bigger picture, the relationship is so huge, multi-dimensional, comprehensive, so there will be here and there one incident, one issue (that) should not stand in the way of strengthening the relationship between the two countries,” Foreign Ministry director of multilateral affairs Hasan Kleib said yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vice-Foreign Minister Abdurrahman Muhammad Fachir said: “We need to have an explanation from Australia on this. Of course this is not the agreement we have in the previous discussion ... bilaterally or regionally.” The arrival came six days after the group, in a different <b>boat</b>, was apparently intercepted by the Australian navy close to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The returning <b>boat</b> was found about 30km southwest of Kupang by local fishermen who heard cries for help. Kupang police said it had run out of fuel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was the third known <b>asylum</b>-seeker turnback to Indonesia in six months. The Indonesians confirmed Canberra had not advised of the interception or the turnback. A spokesman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said yesterday “we do not comment on operational matters”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new incident comes a fortnight after Luhut Pandjaitan, the influential Co-ordinating Minister for Politics Security and Law, told Australian ministers Indonesia wanted an immediate halt to turnback operations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">President Joko Widodo has put Mr Luhut in charge of repairing the chronically stressed bilateral relationship, which has thawed since Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Fachir called for a return to Australian-Indonesian co-operation on handling “irregular immigrant” flows and Mr Hasan said the governments, as co-chairs of the Bali Process, were working on a regional ministerial conference next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b>-seekers, reportedly 13 Indians, two Nepalis and one Bangladeshi, were being questioned in Kupang yesterday afternoon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Antara, the state news agency, reported that the Bangladeshi <b>asylum</b>-seeker, 22-year-old Muhammad Anwar, said the Australians had held the group at sea for four days before sending them back in a fresh <b>boat</b>. “ The <b>boat</b> we used from Jakarta was destroyed by the Australian security,” he said.Mr Anwar said the <b>asylum</b>-seekers were told by officials that Australia did not accept immigrants from any country.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>NO CHRISTMAS FOR <b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKERS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>KOMANG ERVIANI   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>356 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>36</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SEVENTEEN people on an <b>asylum</b>-seekers’ <b>boat</b> that last week sailed within several hundred metres of Christmas Island have turned up in Kupang, eastern Indonesia, reigniting tensions with Australia’s northern neighbour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Operation Sovereign Borders transferred the passengers – 13 Indians, one Pakistani, two Nepalese and an Indonesian crew member – from their original vessel to one of the new Vietnamese fishing boats it uses in turn-backs.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the <b>asylum</b>-seekers arrived in seas just off Christmas Island last Friday, they came the closest to making Australian landfall since late 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to police, the <b>boat</b> left from near the West Java port of Pelabuhan Ratu on November 18 and arrived at Christmas Island two days later, before being repelled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were then transferred at sea, somewhere near Ashmore Reef, to the Farah, one of the new Vietnamese boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Indonesian crew member was given maps and directions back to Indonesia. They were also given leaflets in different languages stating: “NO WAY – you will not make Australia home.” The crew member told authorities in Indonesia he had been recruited in Makassar, South Sulawesi, to sail to Christmas Island for the equivalent of $2000. He said he was yet to be paid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">East Nusa Tenggara police spokesman Jules Abraham Abast said 16 <b>asylum</b> seekers had been stranded in waters off Tablolong in Kupang Regency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are 17 people on the <b>boat</b>, including 16 <b>asylum</b> seekers and one <b>boat</b> captain,” he said. “They were stranded after their <b>boat</b> running (sic) out of fuel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They said they went to Australia by <b>boat</b>, but then they were told to go back by the Australian Navy. They give them new <b>boat</b> with limited fuel, and they stranded in Kupang.” A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the minister did not comment on operational matters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the move has increased tensions with Indonesian ahead of multi-nation talks aimed at stemming the flow of <b>boat</b> people.An <span class="companylink">Indonesian foreign ministry</span> spokesman yesterday repeated his nation’s opposition to the turn backs, saying it puts lives at risk and does not solve the <b>asylum</b> problem.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Jewel Topsfield   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>825 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia protests pushing back <b>boat</b> By Jewel Topsfield</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued Page 4</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tensions have once again flared between Indonesia and Australia over <b>asylum</b> seeker policy after a <b>boat</b> that was pushed back from Christmas Island by the Royal Australian Navy ran out of fuel off Indonesia. On Thursday evening - just hours before a two-day summit on refugees began in Jakarta with 14 countries participating including Australia - the <b>boat</b> carrying 16 <b>asylum</b> seekers and an Indonesian captain washed up at a beach in West Kupang. The whereabouts of the <b>boat</b> had been a mystery after it was towed</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">out to sea when it came within 200 metres of Christmas Island last Friday. The <span class="companylink">Indonesian Foreign Ministry</span> on Friday reiterated its opposition to Australia's <b>boat</b> push-back policy, which it says puts lives at risk and is not a sustainable solution. "Unilateral action is not in line with our spirit of co-operation," Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Muhammad Fachir said outside the meeting. "Those who were sent back - what about their fate? It should become our common concern."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia protests pushing back <b>boat</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Fachir said the latest <b>boat</b> incident would not disturb the <b>refugee</b> roundtable, which would focus on the root causes of the irregular movements of persons. However, Indonesia will seek an explanation from the Australian government. Australia is being represented at the roundtable by the ambassador for people smuggling issues for Australia, Andrew Goledzinowski, who will chair a panel on Saturday on future co-operation among affected countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Indonesia's stance remains that <b>boat</b> push-backs are endangering," Arrmanatha Nasir, a spokesman from the office of Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. "The irregular migrant issue must be addressed comprehensively, it cannot be solved by only one party such as the destination country or source country." Mr Nasir said the Bali process was the mechanism in the region to discuss <b>asylum</b> seekers. "So if we want to have a sustainable solution we have to go beyond our own self interest."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the police officers who assisted the 16 male <b>asylum</b> seekers off their <b>boat</b>, Farah, at Tablolong beach told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> they could have died if no one had found them. "They were in OK condition, they were given enough food and plenty of water, but they ran out of fuel. They could've died if they sunk or if no one found them," he said. The <b>asylum</b> seekers, who are from India, Nepal and Bangladesh, say they reached Christmas Island but were turned back by the Royal Australian Navy after</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">having been detained for five days. Bangladeshi man Muhammad Anwar, 22, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> their vessel was leaking water so they were then transferred to another <b>boat</b>. "I don't know about Australia turning back boats before. The agent said Australia is good now, they take immigrants now," he said. Mr Anwar said he paid people smugglers $US5000 ($6890) to take him to Australia. with Amilia Rosa, Karuni Rompies and Nicole Hasham</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Fachir said the latest <b>boat</b> incident would not disturb the <b>refugee</b> roundtable, which would focus on the root causes of the irregular movements of persons. However, Indonesia will seek an explanation from the Australian government. Australia is being represented at the roundtable by the ambassador for people smuggling issues for Australia, Andrew Goledzinowski, who will chair a panel on Saturday on future co-operation among affected countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Indonesia's stance remains that <b>boat</b> push-backs are endangering," Arrmanatha Nasir, a spokesman from the office of Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. "The irregular migrant issue must be addressed comprehensively, it cannot be solved by only one party such as the destination country or source country." Mr Nasir said the Bali process was the mechanism in the region to discuss <b>asylum</b> seekers. "So if we want to have a sustainable solution we have to go beyond our own self interest."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the police officers who assisted the 16 male <b>asylum</b> seekers off their <b>boat</b>, Farah, at Tablolong beach told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> they could have died if no one had found them. "They were in OK condition, they were given enough food and plenty of water, but they ran out of fuel. They could've died if they sunk or if no one found them," he said. The <b>asylum</b> seekers, who are from India, Nepal and Bangladesh, say they reached Christmas Island but were turned back by the Royal Australian Navy after</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">having been detained for five days. Bangladeshi man Muhammad Anwar, 22, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> their vessel was leaking water so they were then transferred to another <b>boat</b>. "I don't know about Australia turning back boats before. The agent said Australia is good now, they take immigrants now," he said. Mr Anwar said he paid people smugglers $US5000 ($6890) to take him to Australia. with Amilia Rosa, Karuni Rompies and Nicole Hasham</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Inequality</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Harry Frankfurt's bestselling book On Bullshit struck a chord with a general readership because it applied philosophical reasoning to an unlikely subject: the concept of bullshit. On Inequality, which analyses a more conventional philosophical and economic notion, lacks the novelty value of its predecessor. A common gut reaction is that inequality is morally objectionable. Frankfurt questions this, arguing that to dwell on economic equality or egalitarianism is actually harmful because it encourages a preoccupation with economic status - by comparing oneself with others - rather than on what it means to have enough. It's an important, counter-intuitive argument but Frankfurt's dry prose style and philosophical point-scoring makes On Inequality unnecessarily hard work.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fragility of the Turnbull government's lead in the opinion polls has been exposed by new research which shows voters marking down the government's performance in every policy issue of concern since Tony Abbott was replaced - and fears about border security and immigration are back on the rise.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The work, carried out by JWS Research, warns that cost-of-living concerns, driven by talk of a GST hike, are acting like a "sea-anchor" in terms of stoking voter anxiety and pessimism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"While the published polls show the new Prime Minister has greater support among voters in his role than his predecessor and has turned around support for his party in the polls, this has yet to translate into improved performance scores on the issues that matter the most to Australians," the research says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The findings are contained in the latest quarterly True Issues survey conducted by JWS Research, which canvassed the views of 1100 voters. They are presented with a list of 11 issues, asked to rate them in order of importance and the government's performance on each.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The survey was conducted from November 5 to November 10 when political debate about a GST increase was prominent. It found that since the last survey in June, the government's performance rating across every issue fell - the first time this has happened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The issues tested were hospitals and healthcare, the economy, education, immigration and border security, community and social issues, quality of government, infrastructure, environment, defence and security, regional and rural Australia, and business and mining. Hospitals (81 per cent), the economy and finances (64 per cent) and education (60 per cent) remained the top three issues but had the greatest gap between importance and government performance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The performance rating on hospitals fell from 18 to 15 per cent, the economy from 22 to 17 per cent and education from 25 to 22 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">JWS Research director John Scales believes talk of a GST increase is like a "sea-anchor" in terms of acting as a drag on the government. This is assisted by growing global insecurity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When those who nominate the economy as a concern are presented with a list of economic issues, the cost of living is cited by 50 per cent. This is more than double the next-highest area of economic concern - the 24 per cent who cite housing affordability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The poll finds the proportion of those who think the national economy is headed in the right direction has fallen from 24 to 18 per cent. Mr Scales said this pessimism is driven by a decline in manufacturing and mining, and uncertainty about what will replace them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They don't know where the new jobs are coming from," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Concerns about housing availability and foreign ownership are also on the rise. All of this, Mr Scales said, is driving the expectation burden on the new government, which is keen to consolidate its poll lead by rolling out measures. Its first major move will be the innovation statement in mid-December.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Mr Abbott became prime minister in 2013, one of the biggest shifts in True Issues was the decline of border security and immigration as an issue of concern. This was because the government stopped the <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the latest survey finds it has returned as the fourth-highest area of concern, up from 40 to 46 per cent since June, while the government's performance rating has dropped from 34 to 29 per cent. Fears of Australians fighting abroad have dropped 15 per cent since June, to be replaced by rising fears about people coming into the country as refugees (up 7 points) and immigrants (up 10 points).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's not about people going away any more, it's about them coming back," Mr Scales said. "This is pre-Paris - imagine what has happened since."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The research attributes the change to the shootings in October of a police employee outside the Parramatta police station and images of vast <b>refugee</b> flows into Europe.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">China’s most famous artist has his passport back and he’s not afraid to use it. Ashleigh Wilson meets Ai Weiwei in his Berlin studio as he prepares for a groundbreaking exhibition in Melbourne</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Light streams in through arched windows. A guest book lies open. A man is playing an organ — it sounds as if he’s learning a new piece — but otherwise there’s no one around. It’s autumn in Berlin and the air inside the Zions­kirche feels five degrees colder than outside, where a tiny wooden <b>boat</b> covered with mes­sages about <b>refugee</b> policy has been set up near the entrance.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here, as in the rest of the city, the church wears its history in the open. A statue and plaque commemorate German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who held services there in the early 1930s before joining the struggle against the Nazis. A pamphlet details the activity near the end of the Cold War, when critics of the East German regime met inside its walls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Zionskirche now looks down to a very different city. The surrounding neighbourhood, Prenzlauer Berg, is full of cafes, boutique shops and young creatives who can no longer afford to live there, as well as the subterranean studio of Ai Weiwei. It’s a former brewery that opens out to a complex with a hostel and other art spaces, one of which belongs to Olafur Eliasson.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The symbolism is hard to resist: China’s most famous artist and antagonist working in an underground studio a short walk from the site of so much resistance. He doesn’t make much of this beyond acknowledging the “very close history” all around. He found the studio six years ago, before he was detained in China. It was a snap decision, one he puts down to intuition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s purely luck,” he says. “Most of the happenings in my life are just purely luck.” No longer confined to China, and now dividing his time between Beijing and Berlin, Ai has been busy making use of his newly acquired freedom of movement. In September he was in London, where his show at the Royal Academy had critics gushing. This month he was in Stockholm as a film festival judge. Next month the 58-year-old arrives in Melbourne to link arms with the man he describes as the most important artist of the previous century, Andy Warhol. Then there’s social media, his most robust platform, which makes him everywhere and nowhere all the time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His fate may be tied to China but Ai doesn’t necessarily see himself as a Chinese artist. What then? Clues can be found on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> and <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>: his concerns are increasingly global, wherever individual freedoms are under threat. Today he’s in Berlin, thanks to his recently returned passport, and it’s from here that Ai surveys the world. All this serves to emphasise the universality of his message, though that’s not how Ai would put it. He leans back: “Well, you know, the noodle in China is called noodle, in Japan called udon, in Italy called spaghetti. But it’s all noodles.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three decades ago, Ai was just another foreign 20-something wandering the streets of New York. He had ambitions as an artist but knew little about Western art. New York was the centre of the world, but it also felt like the enemy of China. “So that means mentally I really wanted to go to New York.” His father, Ai Qing, a poet, had studied in Paris in his formative years, though his fortunes turned after his return to China. He was exiled to the rural region of Xinjiang and forced to clean toilets. The family returned to Beijing in 1976. The young Ai studied at film school, then headed to the US in 1981, arriving in New York two years later. He performed a range of odd jobs, dashing off sketches for tourists, taking photographs, roaming galleries. He remembers living as an outsider in the city, but spent time with Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, who had also known his father. As for art, he loved Marcel Duchamp, particularly the idea of the ready-made, refashioning of existing objects into art. One of Ai’s earliest works, Hanging Man, was a coathanger bent into Duchamp’s image.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His first English-language book reveals another formative influence: a 1975 compilation called The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). The closest they came to meeting was when the pop artist appeared by chance in one of Ai’s photographs from 1987, the year he died and the same year Ai photographed himself in front of a series of Warhol self-portraits at <span class="companylink">the Museum of Modern Art</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost three decades on, Ai can still recall the initial appeal of Warhol, especially in a city where art can seem unfamiliar to newly arrived immigrants and students. “Warhol’s work,” he says, “has this natural acceptance, a natural welcome. It’s kind of giving you a look, a language which welcomes people.” As it happens, Warhol had travelled to Beijing in 1982, visiting Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and other landmarks. By the time Ai returned to China in 1993, when his father was ill, the country had shifted course once again, an uncertain environment for an artist still finding his voice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When it comes to Warhol, the passage of time has only solidified Ai’s admiration: “I think he’s an absolute genius and his values are still being underestimated.” Ai is thrilled to just be standing beside him at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span>, where the new exhibition gives both artists equal weight. The catalogue details the many similarities between two men whose lives are almost as familiar as their work, from the studios (Warhol’s Factory and Ai’s FAKE in Beijing), to their use of repetition, to their embrace of new media and the way they explore their identities as a product of the society around them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai says he shares with Warhol a desire for “essential communication and expression”. There are, of course, many differences: “We’re living in very different world,” Ai says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He’s in a super commercial world with materialism. I live in this kind of post-imperial or communist society. And I directly have to struggle with freedom of speech and individual freedom. But there is a strong similarity there, even though there are very different kinds of backgrounds.” He recalls establishment figures who saw Warhol as an opportunistic, commercial artist. As for himself, Ai says, “a lot of people think I’m not even an artist”, that he just enjoys fame because of his opposition to authority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So people have all kinds of opinions. But most important is, do we have fun in our time? Do we really relate ourselves to our reality? I think Warhol did. He had a lot of fun. And I also enjoy my moment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The conclusions are not so important. There are so many good people, good artists, to be remembered. We just try all to join, to give our own way.” The exhibition is a collaboration between the NGV and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, where it will travel after its Melbourne debut. The show features more than 300 works, a melting pot of photographs, film, paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Curator Max Delany has designed the show as a conversation between the artists across multiple subjects and themes. One room, for example, contains self-portraiture. Another focuses on the artists’ engagement with politics and the economy, from Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup silk-screens to a vase by Ai called Neolithic Pottery with Coca-Cola Logo. Other groupings include flowers, photography, Mao, the artist’s studio, film, the relationship between the individual and the state — even their shared love of cats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Warhol’s works span his world and include glimpses of those who came into his orbit, among them Debbie Harry, Pele, William S. Burroughs, Grace Jones, Ozzy Osbourne and Valentino. Ai’s relationship with China is on display — June 1994 shows his wife lifting her skirt at Tiananmen Square, while a new triptych is called Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn — along with his response to authority in general, as shown in Study of Perspective, where he gives the middle finger to international landmarks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two new installations by Ai will greet visitors at the gallery entrance: Chandelier with Restored Han Dynasty Lamps from the Emperor, and Forever Bicycles, a dizzying installation made up of 1500 bikes. The next space is dominated by a Warhol immersion with self-explanatory titles: Silver Clouds and Co w Wallpaper. Ai has responded to these in a later space with new floating installations: Caonima Balloons and Bird Balloon, with the latter based on the <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> logo. Another room contains portraits of Australians known as activists and human rights advocates: Julian Assange, Rosie Batty, Julian Burnside, Michael Kirby, Geoffrey Robertson among them. Ai has made these portraits with generic plastic building blocks instead of Lego, the intended material, since Lego refused a bulk order request. The company explained that it was against corporate policy to associate itself with politics. Hence the revised name for this space: the Letgo Room.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai revealed Lego’s decision on <span class="companylink">Instagram</span> last month beside a photo of the bricks in a toilet beside the words R Mutt — a reference to Duchamp’s urinal from 1917. “Lego’s refusal to sell its product to the artist,” he wrote, “is an act of censorship and discrimination.” The posting did the trick, and he was swamped with offers for donations. A series of collection points was organised. Ai chose BMWs as makeshift Lego containers, and these were parked in various locations — Melbourne, Sydney, Berlin, London, Copenhagen, Brooklyn — where adults and children alike were photographed depositing Lego through the roofs of the cars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai is still critical of Lego, calling the decision “outrageous” and “a big mistake”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says he wasn’t asking for the bricks free of charge, and that no objections were made about a similar piece prepared last year for Alcatraz featuring portraits of Nelson Mandela and other prisoners of conscience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“How could a company tell anybody freedom of speech is political art?” he says. “Freedom of speech and human rights relate to all essential human values, which relate to everybody. I don’t even think that’s political. That’s very essential. It’s just like air, water.” The donated Lego will be used for an artwork, but Ai has not yet decided what form that will take. The original aim of the appeal, he says, was to spread the word and “record what was happening”. He didn’t expect it to generate such excitement, and was “very impressed and touched by the support,” especially from the sight of small children donating bricks”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But when people feel freedom of speech being offended or restricted,” he says, “they respond to it.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Lego campaign accelerated on social media, so Ai was on familiar ground. Once a blogger, he has taken to <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> and <span class="companylink">Instagram</span> with enthusiasm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s hard to imagine how he finds the time. About two dozen assistants are on hand to help operate the Ai Weiwei machine, so surely he doesn’t post everything himself? Ai takes out his iPhone, turns it on its side as though to take a photograph. (Is he taking a shot for <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>?) “Oh yeah. I wake up like at midnight and I’ll do a few. It’s my love, you know.” By contrast, the demands of traditional media come across as more of a burden. His interview with this newspaper takes place in an odd atmosphere for a conversation, among other things, about freedom of expression: an assistant has taken a seat at his side, turned on a tape recorder and is taking notes. She will later ask to see the story before publication, a request we will deny.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Social media must feel like more reliable ground, especially now, given Ai has become a kind of media empire in his own right. This is something else he admires about Warhol: the pop artist was the first to “create his own social media” and was 50 years ahead of his time: “He understands the future is about communication.” Ai has 299,000 followers on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> and 172,000 on <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>. These aren’t Kardash­ian-grade numbers, but they’re still a significant platform for a Chinese man sharing his thoughts on art, politics and human rights. (His blog was shut down by the Chinese government in 2009 after three years of publication.) In recent weeks, he has been posting his Lego portraits from Alcatraz on <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>. On <span class="companylink">Twitter</span>, he retweets stories and comments and engages with followers. He regularly tweets using the hashtag #512birthday, a reference to the Sichuan earthquake from May 12, 2008, that left 90,000 people dead. Ai went public after the disaster — in China, no less — with criticisms of authorities after evidence emerged that shoddy construction had contributed to the death toll.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He began a campaign to collect the names of the children who died, and now publishes them on their birthdays.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2009, while investigating in Sichuan, he was badly beaten by police. He turned the pain into art: the MRI scan of his brain injury became Brain Inflation, while a photograph of him in police custody was called Illumination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ai became a teacher this year, an Einstein visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. His son lives in Berlin, too. Ai Lao is six, which prompts the question: would Ai Weiwei want his son to grow up in China, considering his own problems over the years?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“From a father’s point of view I would have to say I don’t think that’s necessary,” he says. “He should not bear that kind of weight. That’s too much. But of course he’s an independent human being and he will grow up and if he one day decides he will bear responsibility I will be so proud.” Ai lives a lot of his life in public, so his strained relationship with China has been documented in detail. It was well known that he had helped design Beijing’s National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest. But by the time the games had opened in 2008, he had denounced the country’s embrace of the Olympics as a “fake smile”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2011, he was detained in Beijing and kept in custody for 81 days. Accused of economic crimes but never charged, he was confined in a small room under constant surveillance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Later, to protest against his inability to travel, he placed fresh flowers every morning into the basket of a bike outside his Beijing studio. It was a powerful statement, and one that will appear at the NGV, as will a series of maquettes based on S.A.C.R.E.D, a work that tells the story of his detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recently there have been signs of a thaw in his relationship with China, and these have taken place in public, too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In June, Ai held his first ever solo show in Beijing. Then in July authorities returned his passport, a decision Ai revealed with a selfie on <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>. This allowed him to travel to London — his trip took place before a visit by President Xi Jinping, though visa restrictions meant the pair would not be at risk of crossing paths — as well as to Berlin and elsewhere, including Australia. Even though most invitations are turned down because he can travel only so much: “I will become just an aeroplane attendant, just to fly from here to there. I will be totally empty.” The return of his passport was a long time coming. Negotiations for the Berlin university appointment, for instance, began five years ago, but it was only this year that he was able to start. If the contours of his life are tethered to the machinations of Chinese politics, then uncertainty must come with the territory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m still Chinese as an individual and I still defend the values and I really hope one day our people can enjoy the same kind of freedom as I do,” he says. “Through my own struggle I do have a lot of freedom. And I do have certain kind of influence and that means I can lend my voice to be heard. But I feel pity because I have to speak for somebody else.” There’s a personal cost, to be sure, but Ai says he has a responsibility as an artist to defend basic human rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That’s my job. (To) defend the freedom of speech. And I think it will benefit everybody. It’s not for me.” As for China, he remains positive about the future, even though he is “deeply disappointed” by current events: “I try not to underestimate the human potential.” Ai was involved in art long before he developed a reputation for activism. But whether you call him an artist or an activist, he doesn’t really care.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m just a Chinaman, you know. Or a man.” He smiles. “That’s more correct.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The worldwide publication of Ai’s memoir will take place in 2017. It will span 100 years of fortitude, from the birth of his father to the birth of his son.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His motivation is simple: he wants to leave behind “a solid account for my boy”. “I really feel very sorry I never really asked my father (about his life) or did an interview with him, so there’s so much blank in my mind,” he says. “I don’t really know those answers. So I said, well, I will not do this to my boy. So if I leave today, he still can see something I tried to record.”Andy Warhol/Ai Weiwei is at the <span class="companylink">National Gallery of Victoria</span> from December 11 to April 24. Ashleigh Wilson travelled to Berlin courtesy of the NGV.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Delayed white paper a key test</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Geoffrey Barker   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1260 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence - Defence strategy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><pre class="articlePre" >Keeping afloat
Shipbuilding and repair services on 2015-16
Revenue
$3.8b
Annual growth
6.6%
Profit
$342.3m
Exports
$211.6m
Businesses
437</pre>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Complex and fast-shifting strategic circumstances face Australia's new and first female defence minister as she makes final adjustments to Australia's much-delayed defence white paper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marise Payne inherited the draft document from displaced Prime Minister Tony Abbott and defence minister Kevin Andrews when Malcolm Turnbull named her defence minister in late September. By then the three-part structure of the white paper was fixed: a 20-year outlook for defence strategy, force structure and acquisition; a 10-year investment plan for defence capability; and a new defence industry policy statement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was (and remains) a familiar structure with the added promise that it would be Australia's first full-costed and externally cost-assured defence white paper. Trying to get these financial aspects correct and credible is reportedly one reason for the delays (along with three ministerial changes).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the global and regional strategic environments, and national political priorities, have continued to evolve and to interact in complex and sometimes surprising ways that have both alarmed and encouraged defence planners and defence business and industry players in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most obviously at the strategic level tensions have increased between Beijing and Washington over China's land reclamation activities and bullying naval behaviour in the South China Sea. Russia under Vladimir Putin is aggressively and violently seeking to reassert itself as a major global player. And, of course, the extremists of <span class="companylink">Islamic State (IS) </span>continue their savagery in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence planners thus have to focus on two major-power leaders - Presidents Xi and Putin - who are actively and overtly hostile to Western values and interests and who are forming an increasingly co-operative relationship. Some observers already speak of a new Cold War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time the United States, Australia's major ally, is absorbed in its quadrennial presidential election carnival with its sclerotic political system in gridlock. Donald Trump has emerged (for the time being) as a serious presidential contender to the dismay of Australians concerned to secure and advance the future of the US alliance. President Barack Obama meanwhile has kept more than 5000 troops in Afghanistan and is prepared to send special forces to Syria, while Russia has launched air strikes primarily to support the embattled President Bashar al-Assad against rebels seeking to oust him while claiming the real target is IS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What you have is an increasingly tense game of chess.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Marise Payne faces a world that is changing under the pressure of China's rise, Russia's aggressive resentment, and US reluctance to continue to act with once-characteristic decisiveness. Factor in rising extremist Islamic violence and it is easy to see why Payne might be concerned about regional and global stability and how Australia might best respond to it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So far Australia's responses have been warnings to China and Russia to respect international sovereignty and a rules-based global order. It has deployed Australian jet fighters to attack IS targets but has shown little enthusiasm for joining any expanded a ground war against IS. The white paper will outline longer term national responses to deal with these issues including, importantly, the moral question of <b>asylum</b>-seeker claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Happily, before their overthrow by Turnbull, Abbott and Andrews committed to a 20-year $89 billion dollar continuous acquisition of new submarines, frigates, and offshore patrol vessels. Payne has rightly embraced this program: as an island continent within international trading interests Australia cannot afford to leave any ambiguity about its capacity and willingness to defend its land mass and sea lines of communication in the face of Chinese activity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But ambiguity continues to swirl around plans for new submarines to replace the ageing Collins-class submarines. The number is uncertain, although few expect Australia to acquire more than eight submarines. It is also uncertain whether Australia will acquire Japanese, German or French boats and where they will be built. (ASC in South Australia not surprisingly wants all the work).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Until Abbott's overthrow it was almost universally accepted that Australia would buy the Japanese Soryu submarines: Abbott had a close relationship with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the expectation was that they had a quiet deal that would result in Australia acquiring Japanese submarines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All bets between Abbott and Abe are now off, and the French and German contenders are back in strong contention with the Japanese trying to ensure that their bid is competitive. Perhaps, after all, Abbott's totally opaque competitive evaluation process might prove to be genuine after all. Turnbull and Payne have, rightly, maintained a Trappist silence on which <b>boat</b> they favour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But government financial priorities have changed markedly during what has been the long saga over Defence acquisition and force structure. The emphasis now is on tax reform, notably reform increases, that is, in the goods and services tax, and on proposals to make medical and health insurance regimes resemble more closely the market-driven and lawyer-driven United States health insurance systems. These are the issues that stop barbecue conversations these days, not the cost and justification of new submarines, surface ships and advanced jet fighters. As a good liberal some of these planned changes might pain Payne. But she has her feet beneath the cabinet table now where solidarity trumps everything: cabinets hang together or hang separately, and Payne is smart enough to know it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As defence minister she, like her other cabinet colleagues, will be competing for her share of the budget.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She will not therefore, protest against increasing inequality disguised behind Malcolm Turnbull's rhetoric of fairness. She is more likely as defence minister to accept a stunted notion of fairness, and perhaps to ensure that troops and their families are compensated for the harsher economic consequences of any GST increase.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A major priority for Payne will be to reassure defence business and industry that planned and future defence equipment purchases will indeed be fully costs and cost-assured (whatever that means). There are five compelling reasons for this emphasis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, global and regional strategic pressures now demand that Australia modernises its sea, air and land equipment. Second, the defence industry needs continuous unbroken work to ensure effective on-budget and on-schedule construction, innovation and development of defence equipment in a time of rising uncertainty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Third the Coalition government is under pressure to hold parliamentary seats in South Australia and other places dependent on defence contracts. Fourth, business and industry are natural political and ideological allies of the Coalition. Fifth, past Labor white papers have signally failed to deal credibly with defence funding, and have been criticised for their shortcomings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course the national defence landscape is littered with defence industry statements heavy-laden with declarations of noble vision and ambitious intent. They arrive with a flourish of drums and trumpets while ethereal choirs sing their praises and promise a new Jerusalem for Defence industry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And then, just as quickly, they are gone, vanished, finished and forgotten. The sorry old order remains intact. Marise Payne will want to do better in what will be the first and defining test of her incumbency as defence minister when she releases the white paper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marise Payne has the skills and ability to succeed and it will not be long before we will have the measure of her worth. There are good grounds for optimism.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Rise of the radical right isn't linked to refugees alone</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Duncan McDonnell - Duncan McDonnell is a senior lecturer at Griffith University.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>798 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pauline Hanson, minister for immigration in the Liberal-One Nation coalition, looks into the camera and says: "Australia is closed for <b>asylum</b> seekers coming by <b>boat</b>." After its second term as the junior partner in government, the future looks bright for the party she founded nearly three decades ago. It is the only party gaining members and numerous young One Nation MPs are capable of replacing Hanson when she steps down after a stellar career.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the history of the populist radical right in Australia had followed the same script as Western Europe, the above would not be an alternate reality, but a plausible scenario. In Europe, radical right populists have gone from being seen as "flash-in-the-pan" protest parties to fixed points in the political landscape.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians think of Hanson as a blip, but at the time she was a major threat to the mainstream. The reasons her party failed were many, but bad organisation was one. Another was the reaction of the Liberal Party that (after some hesitation) condemned the messenger while incorporating part of her message.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Western Europe it has been a very different story, and the radical right has been one of the key political phenomena since the 1990s. These parties owe their fortunes not just to public frustrations about immigration, the economy, the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> and the ideological convergence of mainstream centre-right and centre-left parties. Their durability is also thanks to capable leaders and well-developed party machines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Their organisational skills have given European radical right parties staying power. They are usually more active at grassroots level than mainstream parties. And they are built to last. As a result, many have seen their iconic founders step down, but have not lost votes. The French Front National, the Italian Northern League, and Danish People's Party are all buoyant in the polls under new, younger leaders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is precisely the fact that these parties owe their success to long-term factors that makes it so irritating when commentators in countries like the US and Australia link a supposedly sudden rise of the radical right to the current <b>refugee</b> crisis or terrorist attacks in Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This ignores the organisational and electoral progress achieved by these parties. It also ignores the fact that in the initial years of the past decade, several of them were in government or riding high in the polls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was no <b>refugee</b> crisis then and no Islamic terrorist attacks in the countries where radical right parties did well (the first major attack was in 2004 in Spain - one of the few places in Western Europe without a successful radical right party). These parties are about more than a single crisis or issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should also remember that there are countries on the front line of the <b>refugee</b> crisis that have not experienced any such advance this year. The far-right Golden Dawn's vote in Greece's recent general election rose by just 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous election, despite more than half a million refugees and migrants arriving on Greece's shores in 2015.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I understand why some right-wing commentators in North America and Australia push the line about Europe being on the edge. It fuels the argument that their countries could face a similar fate. It helps justify why people should turn to candidates like those of the Tea Party. Or, in the case of Australia, the new radical right party, the Australian Liberty Alliance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Herald columnist Paul Sheehan, the Australian Liberty Alliance is putting up "strong Senate candidates" and is better equipped than Hanson's One Nation. This is unfair to Hanson, who had a range of issues to mobilise on and was once a formidable campaigner. The Australian Liberty Alliance, by contrast, looks like a single-issue party with uninspiring leaders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Consider the three candidates it has announced: Deborah Robinson, president of the anti-Islam Q Society who in the past has shared a platform with Tommy Robinson (former leader of the English Defence League); Kiralee Smith, the anti-halal campaigner; and Bernard Gaynor, whose <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> feed suggests he is similarly fixated with Australian Muslims and Islam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Liberty Alliance is all about stoking anti-Islam fears. But in a country like Australia where just 2 per cent of the population is Muslim, such scaremongering is unlikely - on its own - to bring votes. Certainly, it is very unlikely to produce anything like the success that the more capable and more widely appealing parties of the European radical right have enjoyed not just recently, but over several decades.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151123ebbo0002a</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-NEHR000020151125ebbo00034" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>news</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Syrian refugees to come to Newcastle</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>BELINDA-JANE DAVIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>491 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">NEWCASTLE will be home to some of the 7000 Syrian refugees expected to set foot in NSW, according to the Hunter's <b>refugee</b> support services.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Support services across the region have told the Newcastle Herald they are preparing for the intake and are waiting on the federal government to reveal how many will settle in the area.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Navitas and its partners have organised a wide range of support services that will be tailored to each <b>refugee</b>'s needs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CatholicCare <b>Refugee</b> Services is preparing its own comprehensive support program for the refugees when they arrive in Newcastle next year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the Department of Social Services says the government has not decided where Syrians will begin their new life in NSW or when they will arrive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Navitas has confirmed refugees will initially complete an orientation program to learn about the Australian way of life and connect with Medicare and <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They will open a bank account and be housed in furnished homes across the city that Navitas has rented from the private rental market until they find their own accommodation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Humanitarian Settlement Services regional manager Jill Gillespie says support for refugees in Newcastle is widespread because the city has been opening its arms to refugees for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She expects Novocastrians to welcome the latest intake and said some will teach the migrants English.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will be a similar support program to what the refugees that have been coming to Newcastle for years have received, Ms Gillespie said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The more support you can give people initially means they get on their feet faster.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Gillespie says refugees from warn-torn regions may need emotional and mental health support to deal with their sense of loss.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These people will have left everything behind and that may include family members ... They have a sense of loss and a sense of wanting to find a place that is safe. Resettlement is their last option for a new life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">NSW Department of Community Services</span> has a stringent criteria when selecting resettlement locations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Gillespie suspects Newcastle has been chosen because it has everything that a city has and it is less intimidating.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">East Maitland Uniting Church reverend Warwick Cadenhead has praised the widespread support and says the government should roll it out to every person seeking refuge in our country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says the shortfall of support for <b>asylum</b> seekers was inappropriate and they deserved to be treated with dignity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It doesn't matter how they arrive, if they have a well-founded fear of prosecution in their country then they should be welcomed, and arriving by <b>boat</b> is a legal way to enter the country, he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The church has launched a refugees are welcome here campaign across NSW and the ACT to convey their message to the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coffs Harbour, Wollongong, Albury and Wagga Wagga have also been flagged as resettlement sites.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor’s ‘year of ideas’ looks like going up in smokes</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEFANIE BALOGH, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1028 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten declared this would be Labor’s year of ideas but with six weeks to go he is falling short.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor calculates its four main revenue-generating policies — cracking down on multinational tax avoidance, curbing high-end superannuation tax concessions, axing the Emissions Reduction Fund and, to be announced today, ratcheting up the excise on cigarettes — will raise $11.3 billion over the forward estimates. But that represents just 13 per cent of the savings required to wipe out the budget deficit, even before Labor uses some of the proceeds to underwrite election promises.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The May budget predicted deficits of $82bn over the next four years — a figure that assumes $18bn in government measures currently blocked in the Senate pass.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader will today unveil a plan for Labor to extend the policy of raising the excise on cigarettes as a health measure and revenue raiser. If elected, Labor would introduce four annual 12.5 per cent excise increases on September 1, starting in 2017. The policy, independently costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, is forecast to raise $3.8bn over the forward estimates and $47.7bn over the “medium term”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor risks alienating supporters in areas such as western Sydney and the bush, which have higher smoking rates than wealthier areas. Pre-empting claims Labor is relying on tax rises for fiscal lifting, Mr Shorten said: “Labor wants to reduce the number of people who smoke; Malcolm Turnbull’s Liberals want to increase the GST and the cost of everything, including fresh food, school fees and going to the doctor.’’ Mr Shorten told The Australian: “We’ve developed more positive polices than any opposition in a generation. Our positive plans are designed to prepare Australia for the future, for the defining challenges of the next decade. A future defined by ­science, technology, education and innovation.” In the 12 months since he declared at the <span class="companylink">National Press Club</span> that Labor would be “defined in 2015 by the power of our ideas’’, its policy formulation remains scant, is falling flat and is failing to connect with new voters. In terms of bigger ideas, Labor’s revenue measures have concentrated on the big end of town with its superannuation and multinational tax changes, while its spending commitments have kept faith with the party’s true believers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s biggest spending commitment is in higher education with a promised new student funding guarantee. Budgeted at $2.5bn over four years — and paid for by its superannuation reforms, multinational tax and scrapping the ERF — the policy would increase the investment in every university student by $2500 every year from 2018. By 2026, the student funding guarantee would rise to $4000 per student a year, costing $13.8bn over the decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has also toyed with the idea of giving 16-year-olds the vote, pledged to move a marriage equality bill in the first 100 days of a Labor government, and taken up the cause of pushing for an Australian head of state by proposing to hold a referendum on the Republic within the decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten has unveiled a $71.6 million package to tackle family violence through grants to community organisations to help people stay safe in their own home, improved legal services for women, and a national crisis summit on family violence. He has pledged $33m to establish a ­national redress scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, a key recommendation of the ongoing royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Mr Shorten has rolled out these policies, he has failed to make any substantial contribution to the national taxation reform debate. Instead, Labor has mounted a scare campaign against the GST, and pointed to its own revenue-raising measures to repair the budget bottom line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s calculates, based on PBO advice, that its crackdown on tax avoidance of multinationals, including amending the thin capitalisation rules and a crackdown on “hybrid mismatches” that are blamed for allowing big companies to claim tax exemptions in one country and tax deductions in another, would deliver $1.9bn over the forward estimates and $7.2bn over a decade. Earlier this year The Australian revealed <span class="companylink">Treasury</span> had privately slammed the proposals, arguing Labor’s plan to stop multinational companies gearing up their Australian operations to lower their tax bill would destroy jobs and encourage companies to move overseas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s proposal to introduce a 15 per cent tax on superannuation earnings over $75,000 is estimated to deliver $1.4bn over the forward estimates and $9.2bn over a decade. The opposition’s plan for a 30 per cent contributions tax for those earning more than $250,000 — lowering the threshold from $300,000 for the Higher Income Superannuation Charge — would earn $500m over the forward estimates and $5.1bn over the decade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has vowed to axe the ERF — the centrepiece of the ­Coalition’s Direct Action climate change policy — if it wins next year’s federal election, banking on savings of up to $3.7bn after the last auction early this month, down from an estimated $4.3bn. The Australian understands the government disputes the figure, and $1.2bn of the $2.55bn allocated to the fund has been committed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said it was incredible that Labor was claiming a saving bigger than the actual program, adding it was “no wonder that they made such a mess of the budget”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They are at it again, spending money they haven’t got,’’ he said. At the ALP national conference in July, Labor lurched to the Left on climate change, promising to greatly increase use of renewable energy to 50 per cent in 15 years, accompanied by what Mr Shorten described as a “reasonably soft emissions trading scheme linked to the rest of the world’’.Labor also voted to double the <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 people by 2025 at a cost of $1.9bn over 10 years as a trade-off for adopting <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turn-backs. Labor would also dedicate $450m over the forward estimates to the <span class="companylink">UN High Commissioner for Refugees</span>.</p>
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UN chief rebukes detention policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>364 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Extraordinary plea - Turnbull asked to 'reconsider' Operation Sovereign Borders</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The world's top diplomat has issued an extraordinary plea to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over Australia's <b>asylum</b> seeker policy, voicing unease over offshore detention and urging him to reconsider the nation's border protection regime.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Mr Turnbull on the margins of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur last week, trading his usual soft diplomacy for stronger language when discussing refugees and migrants in the Asia-Pacific.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a statement, the <span class="companylink">UN</span> said Mr Ban "expressed concern over the detention conditions in Australia's offshore processing centres" and encouraged Mr Turnbull to "reconsider" Operation Sovereign Borders, Australia's military-led regime to combat people smuggling and oversee borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Counter-terrorism dominated talks at the 18-nation summit, one of a string of international meetings attended by Mr Turnbull less than three months into the job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It came as the Australian navy turned away a suspected <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> from Christmas Island on Friday, and as Australia prepares to accept 12,000 refugees fleeing devastation in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN</span> statement said Mr Ban acknowledged Australia's longstanding commitment to <b>refugee</b> resettlement, but appealed to Mr Turnbull to "share responsibilities". The pair reportedly discussed problems in Syria and Iraq and exchanged views on preventing violent extremism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The secretary-general indicated that he is preparing a comprehensive Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism for presentation to the General Assembly in the beginning of 2016, and looked forward to the support of Australia," the statement said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the language used in the <span class="companylink">UN</span> statement is stronger than that Mr Ban used personally when speaking to Mr Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Speaking to reporters in Kuala Lumpur at the weekend, Mr Turnbull said recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Bamako had focused attention on how to counter violent extremism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are intensifying our co-operation on counter terrorism with all of our partners in the region. Sharing intelligence, of course, is of critical importance," he said, adding that countering terrorist messaging on social media was also a high priority.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Mal crumples in the face of terror</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Bolt   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1176 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
MALCOLM Turnbull has stumbled, and now we must ask: is the Prime Minister strong enough to take on terrorists?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So far he’s been lucky. The media is still so in love with him that it has covered up his stumbles, or praised weakness as wisdom.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the signs are ominous. Incredibly, not one week after <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> slaughtered 129 people in Paris, Turnbull even proposed a ceasefire in Syria and a power-sharing deal that could include the terrorist group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You can’t signal weakness more clearly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull has three main tasks in protecting us from Islamic terrorism — other than helping ASIO try to detect and stop the hundreds of jihadist threats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first: destroy the terrorists, and especially IS, which has trained nearly 200 Australian jihadists. Its strength is a dangerous inspiration and resource.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second: encourage the reform of Islam. We need a modern version that doesn’t make enemies of unbelievers or demand submission to Muslim rule.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the third: close our borders to potential jihadist recruits until the winds of jihad blow out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But on all three fronts, Turnbull last week went backwards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Take that first objective — to destroy IS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The military experts are united: just bombing from the air won’t do that job. Troops on the ground are also needed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former prime minister Tony Abbott suggested sending at least special forces soldiers — an idea backed last week even by former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, now running for the Democratic nomination for president.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Turnbull last week said no. Too dangerous, he said, siding with the catastrophically weak President Barack Obama, Clinton’s former boss.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull recommended, instead, a ceasefire in Syria’s civil war and a power-sharing deal that included Sunni supporters of IS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Theoretically, yes, some peace deal between mass-murdering dictator Bashar al-Assad and Sunni representatives could help.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Turnbull noted: “(IS’s) base is a Sunni population that has felt disenfranchised, oppressed in Syria … “Plainly, a political settlement that is inclusive of the various groups in Syria … would, of course, deprive <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> of its support base.” But wait. Who would represent the Sunnis in those talks?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IS, which controls eight million Sunnis across Syria and Iraq? <span class="companylink">Al-Nusra</span> , the al-Qaeda affiliate that controls most of Idlib province, home to more than a million other Sunnis?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With which terrorists is the Assad regime meant to negotiate this ceasefire and “power-sharing”?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is precisely what one journalist asked Turnbull last week. Journalist: “How open are you to extending that to include some of the Sunni elements that are part of or linked to <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> (IS)?” Turnbull: “It is clear that the principal determinants of the people that will decide who can be in or out are going to be the people in Syria … There needs to be a ceasefire … and there needs to then be a power-sharing deal.” As you see, Turnbull specifically refused to rule out a deal involving IS. But who else would a “ceasefire” with Assad involve?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull the next day rejected my criticism by insisting IS would not want to be part of any power-sharing arrangement, anyway.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But again he failed to say he would oppose its participation if it decided otherwise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, again: what is Turnbull’s plan to destroy IS?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Silence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull was no more convincing last week in his second objective — getting Islamic leaders to reform Islam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He faced a setback: Australia’s Grand Mufti, our top Muslim cleric, responded to the Paris massacre not by blaming Muslims or Islam, but by blaming the West. Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed said five “causative factors” had to be tackled to stop more terrorism, and all involved Australia’s alleged sins against Muslims — “racism, Islamophobia, curtailing freedoms through securitisation, duplicitous foreign policies and military intervention”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The apparent message: submit or risk death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After heavy media criticism, the Mufti issued a second statement saying he didn’t support terrorism, but he still didn’t take back his list of demands or say he would help reform Islam. Yet that was good enough for Turnbull, who claimed the Mufti had “clarified that initial statement and that seems to have cleared up the issue”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More appeasement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And on the third front? Our borders?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Same thing. Turnbull insisted he would still bring in 12,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq, despite rising fears of importing terrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don’t worry, he said. These refugees would go through “very thorough and extensive background checks”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But how often has this checking failed us already?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Look at some of the refugees we have allowed in who turned to jihadism: Lindt cafe gunman Man Monis, Curtis Cheng killer Farhad Jabar, IS recruiter Mohammad Baryalei, Holsworthy Barracks terror plotter Saney Edow Aweys, and Numan Haider, who stabbed two police in Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even the head of the powerful <span class="companylink">FBI</span> , James Coney, warned he couldn’t properly screen the 10,000 Syrian refugees the US was taking — fewer than Australia — because Syria had such poor data to work with. “There will be nothing show up because we have no record of them.” How useful is it to check refugees anyway, when Turnbull last week admitted their children and grandchildren are actually the greater risk?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, at least six of the Paris attackers were actually the children of immigrants and refugees. So were three of the four 2005 London bus bombers, as were Jabar and Haider here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So how do you screen the future children of refugees?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, our safest option is to take only refugees from the persecuted Christian minority, which the Abbott government first hinted was the plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But two of the four families chosen so far are Muslim, and the head of the Government’s Syrian <b>Refugee</b> Resettlement Task Force insists “there is no selection based purely on religion”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, and other Christian leaders say they now fear most of the 12,000 refugees will indeed be Muslim, largely because Christians are so persecuted that they don’t even dare register in the United Nations <b>refugee</b> camps, which are dominated by Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, the <span class="companylink">UN</span> agency running those camps says it won’t pick out Christians for us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We do not take too much notice of what politicians anywhere in the world have to say,” said Australian UNHCR country director Andrew Harper, who looks after 600,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So on three fronts, three reverses from Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amazingly, even Labor Left-winger Anthony Albanese, a potential Labor leader, sounded tougher than Turnbull on The Bolt Report yesterday, declaring IS had “no role to play” in any settlement in Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is it any surprise, then, that a <b>boat</b> of illegal immigrants turned up at Christmas Island last week, in an apparent test of the new Prime Minister’s resolve?Turnbull had better find that resolve fast. His waffle, inaction and please-everyone style has served him brilliantly in the polls so far, but does it serve our security?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Border patrol scramble to buy outboard motor</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>427 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The navy was again on patrol at Christmas Island and Australian Border Force’s largest ship, Ocean Shield, was steaming back to the Australian territory yesterday after the arrival of a suspected <b>asylum boat</b> sent authorities scrambling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Indonesian-flagged wooden vessel, carrying at least 11 people, was ushered out to sea under its own power on Friday as ABF officers onshore hurriedly purchased a small secondhand <b>boat</b> engine at a local workshop, triggering rumours it was going to be the auxiliary motor for the wooden vessel being turned back. There has been no sign of the suspected <b>asylum boat</b> or its passengers since the ABF officers collected the 30-horsepower engine, fuel and oil.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christmas Island Shire President Gordon Thomson said the purchase raised questions about whether the small wooden vessel being turned around was seaworthy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, he said it appeared Immigration Minister Peter Dutton had heeded the shire’s complaints that the ABF was not spending money in local shops.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It seems the minister has listened to what we told him at a consultation meeting a few weeks ago and he has started to buy stuff from locals on the island,” he said. “That is pleasing because in the past they did their secret operations here without supporting local suppliers.” The officers were known to be in a rush on Friday and initially wanted to buy only the engine from a <b>boat</b> that was for sale on the beach. When the owner apparently declined, the officers settled on a 30-horsepower secondhand outboard motor at a nearby marine mechanic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals say that engine is suited to a 4m tinny rather than a 10m wooden <b>boat</b>, though it could power the suspected <b>asylum boat</b> slowly in calm weather.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers reached Christmas Island between 2008 and 2013, but the vessel that appeared on the edge of Flying Fish Cove at dawn on Friday is the first to reach the Australian territory in almost two years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malcolm Turnbull has refused to discuss the breach of Australia’s tough border security measures. The <b>boat</b> was first seen by a stevedore who was checking the weather in the cove ahead of a day of loading phosphate into a ship. He alerted the navy.The Abbott government ended the practice of bringing <b>asylum</b>-seekers ashore to be processed in detention at Christmas Island in December 2013, the month officials discovered 27 Burmese had scrambled on to Dolly Beach on the southeast side of the island.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM can’t win on security</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAMANTHA MAIDEN   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>710 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
MALCOLM Turnbull has got the history quiz right and the politics wrong over his decision to dump Immigration Minister Peter Dutton from Australia’s National Security Committee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That could prove dangerous when his critics — including Tony Abbott — are using the debate as a proxy battle to assert that he is weak on national security.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Firstly, the Prime Minister is correct to assert that not all immigration ministers in the Howard government were permanent members of the powerful group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man who stopped the boats, Philip Ruddock, wasn’t on the NSC when he first served as immigration minister in 1996. He joined after the 2001 election as <b>boat</b> arrivals increased. But after arrivals slowed, Amanda Vanstone was booted off when she replaced Ruddock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As she recalled yesterday: “When he left, John Howard didn’t appoint me. There’s really no need. I wouldn’t if I was the prime minister other than when the circumstances of the day called for it. Any minister can be called in at any time.” But times have changed. The threats the NSC are grappling with today are not so much around <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals but ISIS, Syria and Iraq. These are issues that the Immigration Minister does have to deal directly with in the border protection space.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he announced his decision to dump Dutton from the NSC, Turnbull hailed a leaner style of government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ministers have got to get on with their day jobs. You clearly want to ensure that no minister is in a committee taking up his or her very valuable time on matters that are not directly relevant them.’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull left the door open to change, suggesting his decision “wasn’t set in stone’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Subsequently, a troika of conservative MPs including former PM Tony Abbott, the former defence minister Kevin Andrews and Tasmanian MP Andrew Nikolic have challenged the Prime Minister to overturn the decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even more embarrassingly, Labor leader Bill Shorten has now pledged he would offer a permanent place on the National Security Committee for the immigration minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Under Labor, the minister for immigration and border protection will sit on the National Security Committee,’’ Mr Shorten told The Sunday Telegraph.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As Opposition leader, I have ensured my shadow minister for immigration and border protection, Richard Marles, sits on my National ­Security Committee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Malcolm Turnbull’s decisions and the reasons behind them are a matter for him but I’d be concerned if he is letting his personal dislike for Peter Dutton influence important decisions like this.’’ But to date Mr Turnbull is insisting there is no rational reason to permanently include the Immigration Minister when he can be invited to appear when required. This is a jaunty if slightly naive response to the political bastardry his Liberal critics are prepared to engage in. They are loving it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“How can you not have immigration on the NSC. If not for the boats, what about all the Australians going off or coming back to fight with ISIL?’’ a senior Liberal said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They all passage via Customs and border protection sites. Mad.’’ The logic here is persuasive. The politics of inclusion will also blunt criticism if something goes wrong. Right now, if NSC stuffs up it’s all on Turnbull’s head.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As an aside, there’s also something to be said for the lost art of succession planning, More ministers with national security experience is a good thing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reason the NSC is so important and powerful is that its decisions do not even need to go to cabinet for ratification. They can, but the group can make national security and border protection decisions on the spot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s critics have detected that national security is a weakness. They are mainly sitting behind him rather than on the other side.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ultimately, this is a game Turnbull can’t win.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Prime Minister parachuted into ISIL-controlled territory to fight terrorists with his bare hands tomorrow, he would still be an L-plate surrender monkey on terror to his hardest critics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He will never be conservative enough. But a sensible prime minister may wish to consider a more suitable power-sharing arrangement.samantha.maiden@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Comedian Anh is rolling on high sea</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Matt Gilbertson GOSSIP GURU   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>340 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>86</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anh Do’s show about his time as a child <b>refugee</b> is getting closer to hitting the big screen, with Russell Crowe at helm</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANH DO is bringing his show The Happiest <b>Refugee</b> back to Adelaide this week, but he has plans to take it to a much wider audience.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I got a phone call a while ago from this deep voice and the guy said ‘hello, it’s Russell Crowe’,” Anh says. “I just thought it was my mate Johnno playing a prank on me, but it was really Russell Crowe and he’s now bought the film rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We’re writing the screenplay at the moment and we’re auditioning for a three-year-old Vietnamese boy to play me. The only thing is he needs to have massive teeth and a slightly wonky head to play me.” As well as writing the film version, Anh has plans to star in the movie himself. “I said to Russell ‘I would love to play the role of my dad’, which is ­actually the lead role, so that’s going to be very special. I have to get ready for it, though – my dad was only 50 kilos when he was on that <b>boat</b> and I’m weighing 85, so it will just be an air diet,” he jokes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Happiest <b>Refugee</b> tells the story of Anh and his family’s journey to Australia in 1980 on an 8m <b>boat</b> with 47 other Vietnamese refugees. Sick with dehydration and with one person dead, the journey was the first of many struggles for a young Anh, who overcame difficulties throughout his life to become a lawyer and, in 2008, Australia’s Comedian of the Year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite this, he insists his show is an uplifting experience. “It’s an emotional subject, but at the end of the day I think it’s uplifting,” he says.The Happiest <b>Refugee</b> is at the Thebarton Theatre next Saturday at 7pm. Tickets through <span class="companylink">Ticketmaster</span>.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Navy turns away <b>boat</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>228 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE first <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> to have penetrated Australian waters in 18 months has been turned back to sea, presumably toward Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed there were eight people aboard the tiny fishing vessel which made it to within 200m of Christmas Island before being intercepted by the Royal Australian Navy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The arrival comes just eight weeks into Malcolm Turnbull’s Prime Ministership and amid concerns among some Coalition MPs that people smugglers would eventually try and test the resolve of the new PM.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On taking office Mr Turnbull removed the Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton as a permanent member of Cabinet’s National Security Committee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The arrival also coincided with reports out of Jakarta that Indonesia had offered to create an “<b>asylum</b> island” between Australia and Indonesia to take <b>asylum</b> seekers who get stranded on the journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report could not be confirmed but suggested Australia would have to pay for it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton returned yesterday from a visit to Jakarta.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Government would not confirm whether the latest arrival was a people-smuggling venture, with rumours it could have been a stray fishing vessel, and have refused to say how the vessel made it so far. Mr Turnbull yesterday adopted the line of predecessor Tony Abbott by refusing to even acknowledge a <b>boat</b> had penetrated Australia’s maritime borders.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> first to slip through navy’s net in two years</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR PETER ALFORD   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>770 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> slips navy’s net</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A port worker yesterday detected a suspected <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> only 100m off Christmas ­Island after the tiny vessel slipped past the Australian Border Force, which had sent its cutter Ocean Shield back towards Western Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull refused to comment on “operational matters” regarding the Indonesian-flagged wooden vessel carrying at least 11 people, including two men who appeared to be crew.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>boat</b> appeared in the dawn light on the edge of Flying Fish Cove almost two years since the last known breach of Australia’s tough border control measures at Christmas Island. The discovery came as Indonesia’s senior security minister, Luhut Pandjaitan, said talks had resumed with Canberra on co-operative solutions to the problem of <b>asylum</b>-seekers stranded in the archipelago trying to get to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Luhut, Co-ordinating Minister for Politics, Security and Legal Affairs and confidante of President Joko Widodo, confirmed he had talks in Sydney last weekend with several Australian ministers and senior officials.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he denied a Jakarta Post ­report he had proposed Australia should lease an Indonesian island and operate a <b>refugee</b> processing camp to handle those people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We talked about solutions to the <b>refugee</b> problem because it is not only our problem, it is a ­humanitarian issue,” Mr Luhut told The Weekend Australian from Kuala Lumpur. “It is not only our country’s responsibility but (Australia’s) responsibility as well.” From the shoreline at Christmas Island, where more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers arrived by <b>boat</b> between 2008 and 2013, residents watched yesterday after the navy was called in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sailors aboard HMAS Maryborough sent a boarding party to the small vessel using a rigid inflatable <b>boat</b>. After issuing life jackets to those on-board, the navy guided it out to sea. The wooden <b>boat</b> had come within 100m of landfall, ­apparently undetected by the Maryborough or the land-based maritime radar built after a 2010 <b>boat</b> crash on the island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ocean Shield, which regularly patrols off Christmas Island, was off the Pilbara coast near the town of Karratha. Other Border Force vessels were near Darwin and Broome, according to online maritime traffic monitoring.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Locals speculated the <b>boat</b> may have been a fishing vessel that strayed from Indonesian waters, but the number of people on-board seemed more than necessary to run a small vessel. The navy separated two men who appeared to be crew, as they have done in the past when intercepting <b>asylum</b>-seeker vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor immigration spokesman Richard Marles urged Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to explain what had occurred. “We need to hear from the minister today, in detail,” Mr Marles said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for Mr Dutton said: “We do not comment on ­operational matters.” Indonesia is increasingly concerned that <b>asylum</b>-seekers continue to arrive, despite Australia shutting the door to boatpeople in July 2013, and that their presence is socially disruptive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new discussions between Australia and Indonesia come after high-level communications on <b>refugee</b> flows broke down during a series of relationship challenges, including Australia turning <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats back to Indonesia and the executions of Australian Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran ­Sukumaran in April.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Luhut took the opportunity of the Sydney bilateral conference on tracking illegal money flows, including to terrorist-sponsoring groups, to resume talks on <b>refugee</b> co-operation. While he firmly ­restated Indonesia’s opposition to Australian <b>boat</b> turn-backs, the ­Indonesian minister confirmed a delegation of Australian officials would visit Jakarta next month to further the discussions on <b>asylum</b>-seeker co-operation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesian authorities, the <span class="companylink">UN</span> High Commission for Refugees and several other agencies are handling more than 13,400 <b>asylum</b>-seekers and registered refugees, most stranded while trying to reach Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While distancing himself from the Jakarta Post report, Mr Lund also denied the Australians had raised the possibility of <b>refugee</b> processing in Indonesia. “No, we talked on solutions form both side on the <b>refugee</b> issue — there should be co-operation from both countries to handle the issue.” Mr Luhut said he had talked about the issue of <b>refugee</b> camps with the Jakarta Post in the context of Indonesia’s previous difficulties handling hundreds of thousands of post-Vietnam War <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Galang island.At least twice in the past three years Indonesian governments have considered proposals from its Immigration Department to isolate refugees, <b>asylum</b>-seekers and registered refugees in a single ­island camp. However, both proposals were rejected, in part because of bitter memories of the Galang Island experience.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>STATE NEWS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>33 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>105</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum boat</b> slips in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum boat</b> slips in</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <b>boat</b> believed to be carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers arrived in Flying Fish Cove at Christmas Island — the first such arrival since 2013.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>ASYLUM BOAT</b> IN U-TURN</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>119 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN <b>ASYLUM</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> discovered just 200m from shore at Christmas Island has been turned back to sea, presumably towards Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed there were eight people on board the tiny fishing vessel – the first to have penetrated Australian waters in 18 months.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The arrival – eight weeks into Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership – came after ­concerns raised among some Coalition MPs that people-smugglers would be planning to test the new PM’s resolve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull yesterday adopted the stance of his pre­decessor, Tony Abbott, when questioned about the <b>boat</b> turnback – refusing to even acknowledge the incident and saying “we don’t comment on operational matters”.REPORTS P22-23</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>npag : Page-One Stories | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020151120ebbl000b4</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151120ebbl0003f" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Boat</b>'s fate uncertain</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham, Immigration correspondent   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>417 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton must reveal the fate of a boatload of suspected <b>asylum</b> seekers that reportedly came close to landing at Christmas Island early on Friday morning, Labor says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The small wooden <b>boat</b> pulled up close to shore at Christmas Island before being intercepted by the navy, local sources say.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is believed to have come within a few hundred metres of the jetty at Flying Fish Cove before being towed to Smith's Point.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government has been determined to "stop the boats" and the near-arrival raises questions over how the vessel penetrated the border protection regime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokeswoman for Mr Dutton would not confirm the arrival, saying "we do not comment on operational matters". Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull refused to comment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles said Mr Dutton must immediately detail the events surrounding the <b>boat</b>'s arrival, including what <b>refugee</b> assessment process is being undertaken and whether Australia is "complying with its international obligations in respect of refugees".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is unacceptable for this Liberal government to refuse to answer questions about this reported vessel and instead continue to peddle the phrase 'operational matters' - this is nothing more than a tired, lazy slogan for suppressing facts from the Australian community," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One local was walking about 5.45am local time and saw a <b>boat</b> in the distance, carrying about 12 people. "There are quite a few fishing boats out at the moment because the weather is so nice. But you could tell by the very large bow that it was not a local fishing <b>boat</b>," the local said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I watched it for a little while and it was heading straight for the cove."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The source believed the <b>boat</b> contained <b>asylum</b> seekers, rather than illegal fishermen, because the latter "usually ... avoid the authorities, not make a beeline for them".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The local believed the <b>boat</b> was later escorted out to sea because it was "nowhere in sight".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the <b>boat</b> should be allowed to land and unload its passengers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The safest thing to do now is to let these people land on Christmas Island and find out who they are," she said. "The government needs to be up front with the Australian people and explain how many people are on board this <b>boat</b> and what condition they are in."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SBS has reported the navy apparently boarded the <b>boat</b> and gave occupants life jackets.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | chr : Christmas Island | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151120ebbl0003f</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020151120ebbl0002v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No island offer for refugees: Indonesia</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield, Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>503 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of Indonesia's most senior cabinet ministers has denied offering Australia an island to temporarily house refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Jakarta Post on Friday reported on its front page that coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, Luhut Panjaitan, had suggested offering an island as a temporary <b>refugee</b> camp.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The newspaper reported Mr Panjaitan had said Indonesia's "kind offer" would come with strict requirements, ranging from requiring Australia to entirely finance the camp to limiting the period of use of the island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Panjaitan told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> he had never made the offer of the island and to ignore the newspaper report.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said he had told The Jakarta Post the Indonesian government didn't want to repeat the experience of a <b>refugee</b> camp on the island of Galang between 1979 and 1996.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> ran the camp on Galang, an Indonesian island south of Singapore, for Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers while their claims for <b>refugee</b> status were processed. Many were subsequently resettled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In my conversation with [The Jakarta Post] I told them about Indonesia's experience with Galang and we don't want to repeat that again. In the end it was us that was dealing with the problems."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> understands The Jakarta Post stands by their report and has a recording of the interview.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Attorney-General George Brandis met Mr Panjaitan in Sydney this week but a spokesman would not say if the island proposal was raised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Brandis told the Today Show that the pair "discussed and agreed on enhanced intelligence sharing arrangements between Australia and Indonesia".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The office of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton did not respond to request for comment and Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles declined to comment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Jakarta Post had reported that the motivation for the offer was that there was potential for conflict between the approximately 13,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees stranded in Aceh, East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tengarra and local residents living in extreme poverty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b> seekers receive assistance from the International Organisation of Migration. "But the people living nearby are left without financial help. This has created envy that may someday become a problem," the newspaper quoted Mr Panjaitan saying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia is not a signatory to the <span class="companylink">UN</span> convention on refugees, and <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees who are stranded in the archipelago are not permitted to work or send their children to local schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said if Australia was willing to resettle people found to be refugees, the proposal "could be a step towards a genuine regional solution".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We need to establish a fair and efficient system where people's claims are assessed before they're forced to get on a <b>boat</b> in order to reach Australia," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"For this to work, Australia must be willing to take the people who are found to be in need of protection in Indonesia."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>WE MUST DECIDE WHICH REFUGEES WE ACCEPT</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PIERS AKERMAN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>458 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>78</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Coalition prime minister John Howard famously declared “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN</span> has now made it clear it will take that decision out of Australians’ hands.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an interview with the ABC’s PM program, Andrew Harper, of the <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span> <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> , says Australians are going to have to take Sunni Muslim refugees no matter what our politicians say, and the Turnbull government is going along with it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In September, just before he was deposed by Malcolm Turnbull , former prime minister Tony Abbott pledged to increase Australia’s <b>refugee</b> intake by 12,000 and said the focus would be on “families and women and children, especially of persecuted minorities, who have sought refuge in camps neighbouring Syria and Iraq”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia, he said, was in a position to take more refugees because of the government’s success in stopping illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Expectations were that significant numbers of the refugees to come to Australia would be from the persecuted Christian and Yazidi groups, among the most threatened in the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Harper, however: “We do not take too much notice of what politicians anywhere in the world have to say. Some are being very forthright in their positions. What we will do is remain objective and focus on the criteria which we have, which is vulnerability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When people are talking about focusing only on minorities, that’s not necessarily a true reflection of the people who are probably most at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So if people start pushing the minority card or the religious card, we are going to be pushing that back and saying this is not the most ­important element for us.” That’s fine for the <span class="companylink">UN</span> but it isn’t a nation and its staffers don’t pay taxes and it is dominated by people who would really prefer an unelected one-world government that they run.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia should tell the <span class="companylink">UN</span> that Australians have their own criteria and they are not tools of the <span class="companylink">UN</span> .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN</span> is a failure, and Australia is not. Had Mr Howard buckled to the <span class="companylink">UN</span> ’s agenda, as Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard did, Australians would not be paying for a far larger number of illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals than the more than 50,000 who arrived on their watch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There would also be a far greater number of corpses floating in the seas around Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians expect to receive Christian and vulnerable people from the non-Muslim minorities. They have nowhere else to go.We should tell the <span class="companylink">UN</span> to stick its criteria and stand up for those most in need.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Migration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020151119ebbk00017</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020151119ebbk00032" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull’s decade, bar knives</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Probyn   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1116 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>77</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015, West Australian Newspapers Limited   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I t takes a special breed of world leader who’s happy to walk across the crowded lobby of a five-star hotel in a terry-towelling bathrobe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there we were on Wednesday night when New Zealand Prime Minister John Key padded barefoot across the marble floor of Manila’s Peninsula Hotel in a fluffy white number.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As his bemused Filipino security detail looked on, whispering into their cufflinks, Key stopped to chat, recognising some of us from the Canberra press gallery.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This correspondent asked him how he thought Malcolm Turnbull was going.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Mate, he’s a bolter,” Key replied. “He’ll be there for a decade.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said he’d seen Turnbull looking a bit bored during a particularly long meeting that day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You better get used to it, Malcolm. Another 10 years of this,” Key joked to him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The political machine behind Turnbull is far less presumptuous. There are a few guiding principles inside Turnbull’s office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don’t kill the candidate, is one. Another is: don’t confuse motion with action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both are reflections — probably unintentional — on the way Tony Abbott’s administration ran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott was for ever on the move. It was a modus operandi he relentlessly employed for four years in Opposition but a campaign mindset he never quite kicked in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The machine behind Turnbull is determined to do it differently, with calm and methodical government, which is ironically the exact same sort of government Abbott promised (in a deliberate slight on Labor) but failed to deliver.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull has, temporarily at least, slowed things down, aiding his aim to cure voters’ debilitating cynicism at the unending partisanship, legislative gridlock and predictable political posturing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has sought to restore pride to high office, seen only fleetingly in recent years, with his appeals to optimism and a sense of national spirit. Hell, it seems to be working, even if some of the polls have suspiciously too much of the feel-good gloss about them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But events will always be the testing X factor for any government, especially a young one showing promise but yet to find its rhythm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even before the Paris terror attacks, Turnbull’s five-nation trip was going to be gruelling in its Ruddesque ambition, with three of the nights to be spent on a plane rather than in a bed getting some Zs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don’t kill the candidate, remember.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s intention had been to use the trip to press reset on a series of relationships. He had to travel in any case to Turkey and the Philippines for the G20 and <span class="companylink">APEC</span> meetings (Malaysia comes this weekend for the East Asia Summit), so he took in side trips to Jakarta and Berlin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Turnbull found another leader keen to renew and refresh. Disputes over <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks, the executions of Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, spying and the suspension of live-cattle exports have all left scars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Jokowi is a man wanting friends because Indonesia, though a country of massive population weight, needs its international champions to fulfil its economic potential.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The market walk with Turnbull, an unscripted and chaotic event, was Jokowi’s public demonstration that the chill between Jakarta and Canberra was gone, even if the “blusukan” wander between stalls would have frightened the bejeezus out of the PM’s security detail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Turnbull-Jokowi relationship becomes as strong as the Howard-Yudhoyono bond, both leaders will benefit. Australia needs Indonesia to be successful — and close.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">German Chancellor Angela Merkel was potentially a trickier prospect for Turnbull.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Merkel has not been an Abbott fan. The former prime minister’s attitude on climate change never endeared him to Merkel, who is somewhat of a carbon crusader. Her dim view of Abbott would’ve been made dimmer by his recent lecturing of Europe for its “misguided altruism” on refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Observers said Merkel brought a perfunctory manner to her meeting with Turnbull. She enlivened when she realised she was not dealing with an Abbott clone but an individual with an interesting, modern attitude. Turnbull’s fabled demand for agility in action?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Paris terror attacks added a new complexity to the trip, as well as another sleepless night for the Prime Minister and his admittedly inexperienced team in Berlin when the horror and scale of civilian murders became apparent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull’s office is still learning on the job. There is very little corporate memory left in the post-purge Prime Minister’s Office. But everyone recognised the Prime Minister’s responsibility after the Paris attacks, getting him out at 5am to offer an appropriate mix of condolence for the victims and resolve in the face of such shocking barbarism. The economic agendas of the G20 and <span class="companylink">APEC</span> meetings became secondary to the new urgency to find a solution in Syria and confront <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In contrast to his predecessor’s predilection for ever stronger military responses, Turnbull advocated a pragmatic approach in which the “aggrieved Sunni majority” in Syria could share power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That takes away the foundation constituency that <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> (<span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>) has been preying on,” he said yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Now again, I’m not saying this is going to be particularly straightforward at all, but that’s clearly, that’s the political objective that people are talking about.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This sort of straight talking, in which the causative factors behind the rise of IS is acknowledged, perhaps explains the warmth during the Turnbull’s 90-minute meeting in Manila with US President Barack Obama, who is resisting a Republican-led push to deploy thousands of troops into Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Obama was always cool with Abbott, not helped that before their first meeting in June last year he became aware the Abbott camp viewed him as the “lamest of lame duck presidents”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Abbott, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had felt Australian support of a political solution involving Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would have been impossible. Where Assad’s removal was once a pre-condition, Assad’s involvement in transitional government is now the orthodox thinking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Abbott’s shadow has lingered over Turnbull’s first major overseas trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His behaviour back home has been less about legacy protection and more as undeclared leader-in-exile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop, whom the Abbott Army regards as Lady Macbeth, may have dismissively struck down Abbott’s suggestion to send special forces into Syria and adopt less restrictive rules on bombing targets. But Abbott’s mischief is undeniable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If John Key’s prediction is to be correct, Turnbull has to do more than win three elections. He’ll have to watch his back.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GOLD COAST BULLETIN Wednesday October 17, 2001</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ABDULLAH Tobruk, the name given to the baby born on an Australian Navy ship which took <b>boat</b> people to Nauru, was a kid without a country.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Howard Government, which used to recognise babies born on Australian ships and planes as Australian citizens, announced it intended to use a 1986 law to deny him a passport.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That left little Abdullah facing an uncertain childhood as a stateless person. The boy was born on HMAS Tobruk earlier that month as it sailed towards Nauru to dispense its human cargo of more than 260 Middle Eastern <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He and his mother, an Iraqi national, were among the first to disembark from the Tobruk at Nauru. They were given medical treatment and migration officials, who named the little boy Abdullah Tobruk, reported that mother and child were in good health.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there were fears Abdullah, who was still inside his mother’s womb when she and other <b>asylum</b>-seekers were collected from Ashmore Reef in September 2001 would not have a country to call home for the first 10 years of his life. Before 1986, any baby born on an Australian-owned ship or aircraft became an Australian citizen. But the law was changed in 1986 to prevent what a spokesman for Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock described as a rort.“It’s like if a Japanese tourist came to the Gold Coast and had a baby. That baby would not be classed as an Australian citizen,” the spokesman said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Choppergate scandal was born of Tony Abbott’s flawed judgment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of Tony Abbott’s oldest friends in politics, fellow Sydney northern beaches MHR Bronwyn Bishop, exposed another of his leadership weaknesses.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott has always hated having tough conversations with those he likes and trusts. While happy to berate editors, journalists or, in a more public sense, his ­political opponents, Abbott was soft in his dealings with natural ­allies. This was often mistaken for simple loyalty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott almost handled Bishop in the correct manner early on. Prior to the 2013 election, Bishop had been shadow special minister of state as well as for seniors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With Bishop having served in the Howard ministry to no great effect, it was already an extravagance for Abbott to have pro­moted her back to the frontbench after assuming the leadership in 2009, so moving her to the speakership four years later freed up a position in the new ministry ­(albeit putting him down another woman). It was probably as harmless a role possible for someone so close to Abbott but so devoid of political talent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite his predilection for ­tradition, Abbott and Christopher Pyne broke centuries of West­minster convention by dragging Bishop to the Speaker’s chair when she was voted in — a task tradition dictates should be left to backbench MPs rather than the executive, much less a prime minister and the manager of government business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The new manager of opposition business, Tony Burke, took to <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> to declare: “Today is a bit like the Harry Potter novel when they return to Hogwarts and Dolores Umbridge is running the school.” For those unfamiliar with the novels, Umbridge is regarded as cruel and abusive towards ­students. Burke’s tweet suggested that wounds ran deep within Labor over the approach Abbott adopted in the 43rd parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the moment she was ­ushered into the chair as an early captain’s pick by Abbott, more savvy Coalition MPs recognised that Bishop being so prominent in question time would bear out Labor attacks that the government was out of touch with the mainstream. Abbott and Bishop had clashed over an attempt by Bishop and Senate president Stephen Parry to ban the wearing of a facial covering such as the Islamic niqab in the parliament galleries, for ­security reasons. Abbott took too long to recognise the possible consequences. After a brief trial, the presiding officers backed down on the ban.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A mildly embarrassing expo­sure of extravagant expense claims had occurred shortly after the 2013 election. Members on both sides, including Abbott, were forced to pay back expenses claimed for travel to weddings and other social events. This included the delightful irony that Abbott had claimed travel to the wedding of former Speaker Peter Slipper, whom Abbott had later crucified as an expense fiddler.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop was thus forewarned. When it emerged that as Speaker Bishop had claimed more than $5000 to charter a helicopter from Melbourne to Geelong to attend a party fundraiser, the media swooped. We can imagine the party faithful who found Bishop a star attraction. While someone should be paid to keep these folk entertained, it’s wrong for the taxpayer to be handed the bill. Other disgraces with your money emerged, but Bishop insisted that her spending had been within the guidelines. The helicopter, though, was a gift for satirists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At a charity function in Sydney, Abbott dismissed the burgeoning affair as “village gossip”. Not being a social media aficionado, he may not have seen the more creative satire of Bishop’s circumstances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was pictured up to all manner of activities in helicopters — drying her clothes, walking her dog or, in the tradition of marrying two topical stories in one, swooping down to save surfer Mick Fanning from a shark attack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More important, the mainstream media, including the <span class="companylink">News Corp</span> tabloids, attacked Bishop with a level of derision they had only once used to attack Abbott — over the Prince Philip knighthood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald Sun, which broke the original story, had plenty of follow-up tales about “Choppergate”. The scandal angered voters still adjusting to the idea of tightened eligibility for the pension, higher fees for universities and the like. Perceptions of pro-government bias as Speaker added to the hostility towards Bishop. Her refusal to apologise sparked ­another round of voter anger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever the details of the ­entitlement rules, the mob wanted contrition, something alien to Bishop. She submitted herself to a jaded, unapologetic media conference in which she even took aim at Joe Hockey, because the treasurer had the temerity to say that she had questions to answer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was sheer petulance and the polls came crashing down again for the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott invited Bishop to fly with him on his plane to the member for Canning Don Randall’s ­funeral in Perth in the midst of the controversy — to save her the ­ignominy of having to pass the media to check in for a commercial flight (at the pointy end of the plane).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The animated way in which Abbott told Bishop on the flight that she had done nothing wrong and he’d go to the wall defending her surprised fellow VIP travellers Sharman Stone, Louise Markus and Teresa Gambaro.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They exchanged looks of shared exasperation with Abbott’s failure to understand how the community was reacting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One MP told us they didn’t ­believe “Abbott the loyalist” was a narrative that accurately captures the former prime minister’s character, arguing instead that poor political judgment was often “rebadged” as loyalty when events conspired against him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal MPs reported being ­inundated with complaints about “snouts in the trough” and being unable to attend official events without jokes being made about what form of transport they had used to get there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott tried to quash the public’s concerns by painting himself as a man of the people — he flew his family to Europe economy class for a holiday, “because that’s what the people do”. Peta Credlin tried to convince Abbott to force out the Speaker, and when she couldn’t she let it be known to journalists that she disagreed with Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Credlin was right on the substance of the matter, no doubt, but the need to highlight to others that she as chief of staff didn’t agree with the elected representative was another sign that priorities and authority in the PMO were all wrong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were so many errors in the handling of the chopper saga that it is hard to know where to start. Bishop needed to apologise early. Her later private claim was that she’d wanted to do exactly that, but was advised not to by ­Abbott, because it would open a plethora of other expenses accusations, damaging the government (and perhaps himself).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If true, it was poor advice. ­Either way, Bishop was clearly out of practice when fronting the media, having been in the Speaker’s chair for 18 months, unbothered by rude questions from journalists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She had no 94A removal power to eject the pointed questions she was getting about her expenses. The final attempt by the Speaker to show contrition to save herself, a radio interview with Alan Jones, came too late. The interview, set up in conjunction with the PMO on Abbott’s urging — though this was denied at the time — allowed Bishop to apologise to a sympathetic ear, but didn’t ease the criticisms coming from the media.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Bishop saga drew attention away from Labor’s national conference, which could have sparked serious divisions within the opposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conference debate over whether Labor should support <b>asylum boat</b> turn-backs saw former deputy prime minister and leadership contender Anthony ­Albanese oppose Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, and the new deputy, Tanya Plibersek, as well as Senate leader Penny Wong, couldn’t bring themselves to vote for turn-backs, proxying out their votes to opponents of the policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Plans to bind Labor MPs to vote in favour of same-sex marriage in four years’ time, if the laws haven’t changed, were also divisive. But it didn’t matter. Everyone was talking about why Bishop wouldn’t apologise or step aside as her saga dragged on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott was keen for another round with “Electricity Bill” Shorten over power prices. Labor had embraced an aspirational renewable energy target at the national conference, which would seek to achieve 50 per cent renewable ­energy usage in just 15 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The economics and the science behind doing so appeared shaky at best, with little detail attached to the policy. Abbott waved around a document from the Environment Department estimating the cost at up to $85 billion, but no one could hear him over the choppergate ­rotors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shortly after offering Bishop such strong assurances of support on their flight west, Abbott real­ised she had to go, but couldn’t bring himself to deliver the news directly. He phoned around, ­including to Cory Bernardi, to see if other friends of Bishop could get the message through to her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bernardi obliged, notwithstanding the way he had been treated by Abbott in the past. He told Bishop that the bleeding had to stop, but as requested didn’t let her know that Abbott had suggested Bernardi call her to express how he felt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sources close to Abbott deny he ever directly asked anyone to call Bishop with a message that he wanted her to step down. News of such backroom manoeuvres by Abbott in time worked its way back to Bishop, ahead of the final spill vote. Abbott had remained loyal for too long, even if he eventually let others do his dirty work. It was a combination of poor political judgment and loyalty that led Abbott to stand by Bishop as long as he did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The entitlements saga, which had ensnared other MPs including Burke, Labor’s chief accuser against Bishop, threatened to tar the entire political establishment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Julie Bishop was especially upset that her personal ratings when polled as an alternative ­leader went sharply down, almost certainly because of her shared last name with the Member for Mackellar. Abbott ordered another ­entitlements review.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If there is anything that MPs hate more than an entitlements scandal, it’s a crackdown on ­entitlements.This is an edited extract from Battleground: Why the Liberal Party Shirtfronted Tony Abbott, by Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen, to be published on Wednesday by MUP, RRP $29.99.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Naval turnbacks and detention have worked, now for quiet resettlement</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Robert Manne </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For the sake of the detainees, it is time the <b>asylum</b>-seeker lobby accepted reality</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For many years Australia’s ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker debate — or, more exactly, the debate over those <b>asylum</b>-seekers who reach our shores by <b>boat</b> — has been in gridlock. The besetting sin of the opponents of these <b>asylum</b>-seekers is a willingness to inflict unnecessary cruelty; the besetting sin of their supporters political unrealism. Unless somehow this gridlock can be broken, the ­principal victims will be the 1500 people who have been marooned for two years or more on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As I write, the politics of the gridlock is being played out on the national stage. Under pressure, the Turnbull government agreed to allow a traumatised 23-year-old Somali woman, who was allegedly raped on Nauru, to come to Australia for an abortion. After five days she was flown back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some of her supporters claimed that she had not been allowed to see a doctor or offered an interpreter. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton offered convincing evidence to the contrary and argued that the woman had refused an abortion, that claims of her supporters were “patently in­correct, if not fabricated”, and that what those supporters truly ­wanted was a “migration outcome”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The incident undoubtedly deepened the mutual loathing felt by the opponents and supporters of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To understand why hundreds of people were transported to Nauru and Manus Island in 2012 and 2013, why they are now stuck there apparently indefinitely and, most important, how the government may be convinced to resettle them in Australia before their spirits are entirely broken, a brief history of <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy over the past quarter of a century is needed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Between 1989 and 1992 a few hundred <b>asylum</b>-seekers, mainly from Cambodia, reached Aust­ralia. In response, the Keating government introduced a deterrent system of mandatory ­detention. It did not work. In 1999 larger numbers of <b>asylum</b>-seekers, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, began reaching Aust­ralia. Additional deterrents were tried for those found to be refugees, most importantly temporary protection visas. These also did not work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boats of <b>asylum</b>-seekers continued to arrive until August 2001. To help pull off an unlikely election win, the Howard government dispatched paratroopers to prevent a Norwegian cargo vessel with more than 400 Afghan refugees on board from landing in Australia and immediately introduced two new deterrents — offshore processing on Nauru and Manus Island and naval tow-backs to Indonesia where possible. These did work. Between 2002 and 2007 virtually no <b>asylum</b>-seekers set out for Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b>-seekers’ supporters claimed the boats had stopped coming because the global <b>refugee</b> situation had eased. This was an exaggeration at best. They also claimed that moral leadership would make most Australians sympathetic to <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Kevin Rudd became prime minister, both these ideas were tested. Rudd closed down the now virtually empty offshore detention centres and abandoned the threat of forcible tow-back to Indonesia. Gradually the boats returned. The rising popular anger over the ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker issue was one of the reasons Rudd lost the prime ministership in June 2010.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Julia Gillard, the numbers of <b>boat</b> arrivals increased. To complicate the moral picture, there were also many hundreds of drownings. Given the accelerating rate of arrivals, the strength of public opinion and the number of deaths at sea, it was inevitable that the Gillard government would try to stem the flow of boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its most important initiative came in August 2012 with the reintroduction of offshore processing for a small percentage of the <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More a malign lottery than a deterrent, this proved completely ineffective. Between January and July 2013, more than 17,000 ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers arrived by <b>boat</b>, almost 4000 more than during the entire 11 years of the Howard government. Without some new policy response, there would most likely have been 40,000 or perhaps even more arrivals by <b>boat</b> in the coming year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Rudd returned to the prime ministership in 2013, one of his first acts was to sign new agreements with the governments of Papua New Guinea and then Nauru. They had two main elements. One was to transport every <b>asylum</b>-seeker to detention camps for offshore processing. The other was the promise that henceforth no <b>asylum</b>-seeker who arrived by <b>boat</b> would ever be settled in Australia. The first promise restored a Howard policy. The second was even harsher. Because of this second Rudd decision, which was of course embraced by Tony Abbott following his election a few months later, the life prospects of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers, whose misfortune was to have reached ­Australia after July 19, 2013, were effectively ended. Rudd’s announcements slowed the number of <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals, eventually to a trickle. Abbott’s addition — naval turnbacks to Indonesia or elsewhere — “stopped the boats”, as he never tired of telling Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Without the close attention that many thousands of dedicated <b>asylum</b>-seeker supporters have paid during the past two years, the suffering being experienced by the 1500 people on Nauru and Manus Island most likely would have been ignored in Australia. For this, the highest praise is due. Pressure is mounting daily in the campaign to bring the <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island to Australia. So far, however, their supporters have seemed incapable of arguing the kind of case that has any chance of convincing the politicians or the military and intelligence officials in Canberra to revoke the Rudd-Abbott decision never to settle these refugees in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Abbott was prime minister this case would have had zero chance of success. Under Malcolm Turnbull there is some prospect of it eventually being considered. A plausible case, resting on more than compassion, is now needed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such a case should, I believe, begin with the recognition that Australians are not, in general, redneck racists hostile to refugees. What historical experience and evidence of the opinion polls have shown is that Australians’ hostility is not to refugees but to ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrive spontaneously by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is not a ­recent phenomenon. Under Malcolm Fraser, it was politically easier for the government to settle 70,000 Indochinese refugees ­selected by Australian officials from the camps of Southeast Asia than it was for it to accept the 2000 Vietnamese who arrived in Darwin by sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Andrew Markus has conducted important empirical research for the Scanlon Foundation that consistently shows Australians are, on balance, favourably disposed to refugees but hostile to <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If anything, across time that opinion has hardened. On this question, public opinion and the policies of both the Coalition and Labor are settled. No government in Australia will do what the supporters of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers want: to once more open Australia’s borders to boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many supporters believe the enthusiasm shown for the Abbott government’s decision to accept 12,000 Syrians shows the tide of opinion has turned on the <b>refugee</b> question. This represents a category mistake, a failure to understand the difference between opinion on spontaneous <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals and orderly <b>refugee</b> programs under government control.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is not only inconceivable that a Coalition or a Labor government in the foreseeable future will run the kind of risk that Rudd accepted in 2008. What those concerned about the situation of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island must also accept is that the politicians and the military-intelligence officials were genuinely spooked by what happened between January 2012 and July 2013, when more than 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers reached our shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the politicians and officials fear is that if Can­berra blinks, with a weakening of any aspect of the deterrent system erected during the past quarter of a century, the people-smugglers will once again have a product to sell to desperate <b>asylum</b>-seekers and the boats will return.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Recently, 400 staff members from the <span class="companylink">Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne</span> protested about the damage being done to children not on Nauru but in Australia’s detention centres. Dutton responded: “I understand the concern … but the Defence and Border Force staff on our vessels who were pulling dead kids out of the water don’t want the boats to return.” In other words, to prevent boats leaving Indonesia, children must be locked up in Australia. This thought shows how far orthodox thinking in Canberra has lost touch with reality. If the supporters of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers are to have any prospect of saving the lives of the 1500 presently on Nauru or Manus Island, what they will have to do is to overcome this entrenched mindset with argument, and convince the politicians and officials that these refugees can be settled in Australia without any reasonable likelihood of a significant number of new <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Here, evidence drawn from history offers the best hope and the most reliable guide. Under Howard, more than 1600 <b>asylum</b>-seekers were transported to Nauru and Manus Island. Of these, one died, 483 returned to their homelands “voluntarily”, 448 were settled in Western countries (principally New Zealand) and 705 settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite the fact there were more than two million Afghan refugees, despite the fact as a consequence of the post-invasion chaos the numbers of Iraqi refugees exploded, despite the fact the political situation in Iran had not improved, between 2002 and 2007, as resettlement from Nauru and Manus Island to Australia slowly took place, virtually no boats of <b>asylum</b>-seekers from the Middle East or elsewhere set out for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Clearly, the threat of a lengthy stay in one of the offshore processing camps and, probably even more important, the threat of tow-back to Indonesia were sufficient to kill the market for the passage from Indonesia to Australia. There was no need to promise to prevent any <b>asylum</b>-seeker in the offshore centres ever settling in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Allowing those who are now on Nauru and Manus Island to come to Australia does not require any change in the policy of naval interception or even closing the offshore processing centres once they are empty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as under the Howard government the eventual resettlement in Aust­ralia of a large number of those transported to Nauru and Manus Island did not undo the deterrent effect of offshore processing and possible return to Indonesia, so is it unlikely to do so now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who, after all, will be willing to spend several thousands of dollars when the overwhelmingly most likely prospect is interception by the Australian navy and return to the point of departure or, in the unlikely event of that failing, an indefinite period of detention in an offshore processing camp?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many Australians recognise that we have a responsibility to people who arrive on our shores seeking our help, which is different from the kind of responsibility we owe to the 50 million or more refugees worldwide — even if it is not always easy to determine what actions that responsibility entails, as was revealed in the debate about whether we should try to discourage boats from coming to Australia to prevent predictable mass drownings in the future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If what I call an ethic of proximity does indeed exist, clearly the 1500 people Australia transported to Nauru and Manus Island fall within it. Given what has occurred, we cannot now say that what happens to these people is none of our concern.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Unless the High Court unexpectedly finds offshore detention unlawful or most of the refugees are willing to go to another bribed neighbouring country, like The Philippines, with marginally less frightening resettlement pros­pects than Cambodia, the choice we will face is straightforward.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We can choose to allow those on Nauru and Manus Island to languish for several more years, watching indifferently as their spirits and bodies are gradually broken, or, at what seems to me a negligible risk of a return of significant numbers of <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats, we can decide to save their lives by resettling them in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The case I am making is based on what I think to be a realistic assessment of the political situation in Australia today. Many supporters of the <b>asylum</b>-seekers will be angered by it and reject it on legal and moral grounds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nonetheless, whatever the legal and moral compromises involved, which are real and undeniable, I believe the proposal offered here is considerably better than the alternative: pursuing a strategy that has no prospect of success for the resettlement of those presently marooned on Nauru and Manus Island, a strategy that fails to recognise the causes of the bureaucratic roadblock in Canberra and to provide a reasoned answer to its politicians’ and intelligence officials’ wildly exaggerated fears.This article first appeared in The Monthly on October 22.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Diplomacy</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Getting hot and sweaty in downturn Jakarta is the challenge for Australian companies after Malcolm Turnbull 's trip to Indonesia, writes Greg Earl.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For a man used to wearing Canali and <span class="companylink">Salvatore Ferragamo</span> , Malcolm Turnbull may have wondered whether treading the global stage was really all it's supposed to be when he found himself sampling batik on a sweaty Thursday afternoon in a Jakarta market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his impromptu visit with President Joko Widodo to the Tanah Abang Market, once a well-known hangout for criminals not far from the National Palace, had three lessons for the latest Australian Prime Minister trying to figure out what to make of our closest Asian neighbour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first is that you are more likely to have an easygoing conversation with Indonesia's inward-looking leader on one of his blusukan visits than in the high-security luxury settings of the diplomatic summits which Turnbull is spending three weeks attending.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That became clear on the day of Turnbull's visit when Indonesian officials confirmed that Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, would not be attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation annual summit in the neighbouring Philippines next week and was a bit doubtful about the East Asia Summit in Malaysia next weekend.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not wanting to travel to distant summits might be quite practical. But Manila and Kuala Lumpur are closer than parts of Indonesia. Turnbull, on the other hand, is frantically carrying his own luggage around five summits, meeting as many leaders as his Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials can rustle up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The term blusukan originates from a Javanese word for entering somewhere, especially a somewhat untidy place. Widodo has made it his personal political motif from his days as an innovative small-city mayor when he would spontaneously check on how the local officials were doing their jobs. It's more Kevin Rudd sucking sauce bottles in supermarkets than Turnbull's sparer public appearances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there is some emerging debate in Indonesia about whether populist mayoral gimmicks will continue to work for a national leader confronted with the responsibility to significantly push up economic growth to provide jobs for an expanding population of youthful workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Widodo has brought a genuine breath of fresh air to a political establishment dominated by dynastic families, generals and emerging business oligarchs. But questions are being asked about why he prefers to act like a mayor rather than attend neighbouring summits when Indonesia aspires to be a top five global economy. "If the president doesn't appear [overseas], our stature will suffer. Unless there is an urgent reason for not attending, the public will judge him for the worse," law professor Hikmahanto Juwana told The Jakarta Post.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So the second lesson for a new Australian prime minister about Indonesia is that the country does not currently benefit from the long, predictable and stable leadership that was associated with the authoritarian Suharto or the recently departed general turned democrat Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Widodo's reluctance to attend summits speaks to his practical businessman's approach to government - which Turnbull has sought to associate with - it also hints at an insecurity about his power as his popularity has declined and his more establishment rivals continue to manoeuvre against him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So while some Jakarta commentators have used Tony Abbott 's departure as an excuse to rehash Australia's recent leadership instability, the more likely new reality may well be for a Turnbull government to see its efforts at slowly rebuilding relations with Indonesia being buffeted by uncertainty about the country's President.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull has wisely avoided claiming a close personal relationship with the Asian leader, who will inevitably now be one of his key foreign policy concerns, but he has paved the way for boosting business ties between the two countries by playing up the way the two men share a background in business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Making furniture in central Java, as Widodo did, might be a long way from cutting deals at <span class="companylink">Goldman Sachs</span> , as Turnbull did, but the business rhetoric of Turnbull's visit will pave the way for the potentially more productive business mission to Jakarta led by Trade Minister Andrew Robb next week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This will be the latest of many efforts at providing some self-interested two-way economic ballast to a diplomatic relationship which is regularly blown off course by conflicts over issues such as <b>asylum</b> seekers, human rights and media coverage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So the third lesson from the Tanah Abang Market for Australian business people watching a sweaty prime minister is that they will have to get ready to do the encore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Fuggle, a partner at law firm Baker and McKenzie, which hosted a lunch for Indonesian investment officials in Sydney on Thursday, says: "Indonesia is a country that is going to ramp up in importance in cross-border investment - including for outbound investment in the near future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"If you consider the way the world engages with China and the way we look at Indonesia there is a lot of room to catch up."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Robb's mission will highlight a range of new opportunities from the rise of an emerging new middle class much closer to Australia than China or India, but these will require more integration with Indonesia rather than simply the trade that has dominated economic relations until now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia subtly made this point at another investment promotion event in Canberra on Friday where the presence of provincial governors underlined how business decisions are now made at the local level in the more democratic and federated Indonesian system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tasmanian <b>boat</b> builder Incat, which runs a global export business out of Hobart, sees a $500 million opportunity in Widodo's plan to improve his country's maritime infrastructure and output, with sales of ferries and patrol boats. But Indonesia wants the skills transfer which would come from joint production in-country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ties off in Tanah Abang marks a watershed change from wayang puppet diplomatic talks in Suharto's palace, but the agenda-topping question during next week's business mission will be how many Australian companies are really up for it?</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politics It is time for an amnesty for <b>asylum</b> seekers. They have suffered enough. - THE NATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Dutton, Australia's Minister for Immigration, was visibly moved by the plight of Syrian refugees on his recent tour of Zaatari <b>refugee</b> camp in Jordan. With a population of 80,000, the camp is one of the world's largest. Dutton met entire families stripped of livelihoods and hope. Their plight appears to have overwhelmed the minister, perhaps even surprised him. He reaffirmed Australia's intake of 12,000 Syrian refugees and, in a welcome move, indicated we may take more.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time he reaffirmed Australia's hardline stance on <b>asylum</b> seekers detained or stranded on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This hard line extends to detainees on Christmas Island, and camps on the Australian mainland. And to the estimated 30,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers out in the community on various forms of bridging visa, yet to have their fate determined, who are stuck in a never-ending limbo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A disturbing distinction has taken root between two categories of refugees. There are worthy refugees and there are unworthy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The worthy include those who wait patiently and politely in <b>refugee</b> camps for their turn in legendary queues, and the unworthy are those who have the temerity to actively seek refuge, embarking on perilous journeys in search of new lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The goodies move us, and the unworthy irritate, or anger us. They turn up on our doorsteps in their desperation and force us to make hard decisions. They are seen as prey to the base motives of people smugglers. They put their own children at risk when undertaking dangerous sea voyages, and need to be saved from themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last Sunday, Kurdish-Iranian <b>refugee</b> Fazel Chegeni was found dead after a desperate bid to get away from the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island. We do not know the full circumstances of his death. Hopefully there will be an independent inquiry that will determine the truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the disturbances triggered by his death have highlighted the fact that <b>asylum</b> seekers have at various times been detained alongside people who are not <b>asylum</b> seekers, and who have committed crimes. Their treatment too needs to be investigated. Many are New Zealanders, and the New Zealand government has certainly reacted strongly to their harsh treatment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All are tarred with same indiscriminating brush. <b>Asylum</b> seekers in the unworthy category are in effect treated as criminals, and perceived as criminals. To understand how this attitude has evolved we need to revisit recent history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the Norwegian freighter the Tampa was anchored off Christmas Island in August 2001, with 438 rescued <b>asylum</b> seekers on board, prime minister John Howard ordered the Special Australian Forces to board the <b>boat</b>. As David Marr and Marion Wilkinson write in their book, Dark Victory:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Once the SAS was on board, Canberra would decree anything to do with the Tampa involved 'operational security' and declare a 'no-fly zone' around the ship. No one on board was to be allowed ashore, and civilians on the island - especially doctors, lawyers, and journalists - were not to be allowed out to the ship. No cameraman would get close enough to the Tampa to put a human face on this story. The icon of the scandal was to be a red-hulled ship on a blue sea, photographed through heat haze by a very long lens."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In other words, we saw no individual faces. We heard no specific voices. We did not know, for instance, that the Hazaras, the major group among the rescued, had fled the horrors of the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span>. Instead we received images of a horde of people crammed on the deck of a steel freighter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A horde is a threat. A horde is easily demonised. <b>Asylum</b> seekers coming by <b>boat</b> have, over the years, been characterised as queue jumpers, illegals, and even as people prepared to hurl their children overboard, a false accusation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The concept of compartmentalisation may shed light on the issue. Defined as a defence mechanism that people use to avoid the discomfort and anxiety caused by having conflicting cognitions, emotions and beliefs, compartmentalisation allows contradictory ideas and values to co-exist. This process is made easier if one keeps a distance from the source of discomfort. To my knowledge, no Australian minister of immigration has engaged directly with <b>asylum</b> seekers held in detention, or with those stranded in the community.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Minister Dutton toured the Manus Island detention facilities, he would meet people with unique stories, skills and a passionate desire to become Australian citizens. If he sat with them, face-to-face, he would encounter people such as Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist who stood up for human rights in his country of origin, and fled in fear of his safety, only to end up on Manus Island, where he has been held since mid-2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Dutton had visited the centre before February 2014, he may have met Boochani's countryman, 24-year-old Reza Barati, who by all accounts was a gentle and kind man, who aspired to study architecture in Australia. Instead he was murdered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Dutton had sat with <b>asylum</b> seekers on Nauru he may have heard first hand from women who have been sexually abused, and he may have been moved by the plight of children every bit as distressed as those he met in Jordan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indefinite detention and indefinite limbo kill the spirit, and engender a self-fulfilling process. Everyone has a breaking point. People are on edge. They are being driven mad and in some cases to suicide. Finally they may join in riots, or lash out at guards and fellow detainees. In the public mind such outbreaks reinforce the perception that <b>asylum</b> seekers are dangerous.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Seeking <b>asylum</b> is not a crime. It is a human right, recognised as such by <b>refugee</b> conventions to which Australia is a signatory. We do not need conventions to make the point. People have actively sought refuge for millennia. Humans have always been on the move, in flight from war, atrocity, tyranny and persecution. It is an integral part of human history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am alive today because my parents were able to leave Europe just in time. They found refuge in New Zealand in the 1930s. Their parents, and almost all their brothers and sisters, were murdered. My mother did not sit back and wait, but actively sought a way out. I am the beneficiary. I was lucky in the roulette of life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is to be done?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is time for an amnesty for <b>asylum</b> seekers, both in and out of detention. They have suffered enough. Such an act of humanity would help heal the split in our national psyche, and resolve a paradox that harms us all.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vietnamese fishing vessels are replacing the enclosed and tamper-proof orange lifeboats that were being used to send <b>asylum</b> seekers back but the changeover has not been a success story, PAUL TOOHEY and CINDY WOCKNER report</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THEY are the new weapon in the continuing fight to stop <b>asylum</b> seekers reaching our shores by <b>boat</b>: brand-new Vietnamese-made fishing boats, rather than the orange lifeboats that were used by the Australian government in turnbacks last year.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As far as is known, three of the 10 sizeable and brightly painted wooden vessels have been used so far to return <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia. Two are now moored on tidal flats on the ­island of Rote and another is in the harbour at Kupang.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">News Corp</span> has obtained basic maps given to Indonesian crews by Operation Sovereign Borders agents, who put the crews and <b>asylum</b> seekers in the new boats and ordered them to go back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The maps gave crews their present location, including longitude and latitude and a hand-drawn arrow showing the way back to Rote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The purchase of the Vietnamese boats by the federal government last year has not been a success story. They were ordered from Hong Kong-based Dragon Industries Asia, but none met Australian survey standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All 10 have required refits, including installation of new bulkheads and re-caulking, at unknown additional costs, before being deployed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal government believes the Vietnamese boats are more sturdy and manageable overall than the enclosed tamper-proof lifeboats, but it is also about impressions and sensitivities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the orange lifeboats began bobbing ashore in Indonesia last year, authorities were angered and local ­coastal people were alarmed, fearing the boats could be rigged with explosives or possibly carrying dangerous strangers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three of the new boats are still being worked on in dry-dock in Fannie Bay, and a fourth was seen this week being towed through the Darwin Harbour, presumably now ready for deployment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Rote this week, an Indonesian captain and five crew members faced court on people-smuggling charges for attempting to transport 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers to Australia on a single <b>boat</b> in late May.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After being intercepted by Sovereign Borders vessels, they were transferred to two of the new Vietnamese boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The crew was given maps and allegedly paid $30,000 by Australian agents to go back to Indonesia. Police on Rote told <span class="companylink">News Corp</span> they had inspected the boats and found that, along with navigational aids, they had been fitted with special devices that would alert authorities of any attempt to head back to ­Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An intelligence source said Indonesian-based smugglers continued to try to con passengers into believing that the way to Australia was open after the change of leadership, along with the ­decision to take 12,000 Syrians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, he said <b>asylum</b> seekers were well-informed and reluctant to pay money for journeys that would fail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s been a long time between drinks,” the source said of attempts to make landfall by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As far as is known, the most recent turn-back was in July, when 25 <b>asylum</b> seekers from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar departed from Kupang.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By July 25, they were in Australian waters and their <b>boat</b> was leaking. They were boarded and eventually transferred to one of the new Vietnamese boats, called “Harum”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In this case, there are no allegations the crew was paid to return, though ­Indonesian police in Kupang said that when the crew was given no choice but to go back, passengers became abusive and threatening. Those passengers are now in immigration detention in Kupang while the crew awaits a people-smuggling trial that begins on Tuesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On this occasion the crew members were also given maritime maps and directions for Rote, which will be used in evidence against them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On August 1, this <b>boat</b> ran out of fuel east of Kupang, near Tablolong, before reaching Rote, and those on board had to be rescued by locals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kupang police said the <b>asylum</b> seekers were exhausted and there was no toilet on the <b>boat</b>. They described the conditions and the turn-back process as “inhumane”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cost of the new boats is ­unknown, but they are believed to be more expensive than the second-hand lifeboats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Border Force confirmed the Vietnamese <b>boat</b> seen under tow in Darwin Harbour this week was one of theirs.“Australian Border Force uses a variety of vessels to prepare for and perform its maritime tasks,” it said.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>754 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alleged people smuggler asked Australian official for 'help'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Boat</b> captain Yohanis Humiang.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The captain allegedly paid by Australia to return <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia said he begged an Australian official for help because he would not receive money from a people smuggling agent unless the <b>boat</b> reached New Zealand. "I told the officer, we haven't been paid, all those days sailing, all our efforts for nothing. Can you help us?" Yohanis Humiang told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> in an interview in his cell. "The officer said, 'Yes we can help you'. He also said, 'Never ever do this work ever again'." Mr Yohanis also revealed Australian authorities had not believed the <b>boat</b> of 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers was headed for New Zealand when they intercepted it on two occasions earlier this year. In June, Indonesian police officers</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> the <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b>, Andika, was intercepted by the navy warship HMAS Wollongong and an Australian customs <b>boat</b> in international waters on May 21. However, they say the payments to the six crew allegedly made by an Australian official, Agus, took place</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">on board the <b>boat</b> several days later near Greenhill Island in the Northern Territory. The <b>asylum</b> seekers and crew were later transferred to two other boats, Jasmine and Kanak, for the return journey. The Rote Ndao court this week heard six <b>boat</b> crew members were paid more than $US30,000 ($42,000) to return the <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia - a payment prosecutor Alexander Sele described as "the alleged bribery money by the Australian government". Mr Yohanis said the police had returned the crew's money, preventing it from being presented as evidence during the court trial. "I already sent it to my family back home," he said. The captain, who is facing a maximum of 15 years' jail on people smuggling charges, said he didn't know the punishment would be this heavy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I was told by the boss that I will get three months at the most, then I will get deported. I wasn't planning on leaving my family for this long. I really regret this, we all regret it." A damning <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report last month found all the available evidence pointed to Australian officials committing a transnational crime by effectively directing a people smuggling operation in May this year, paying a <b>boat</b> crew and then instructing them where to land. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton did not deny the payments took place when questioned on the ABC's Insiders on Sunday. "People can draw their own conclusions. The point that we've made consistently is that we don't comment on operational matters. Suffice to say that our officers operate within the law to stop the boats, stop them we have and we're not going to allow</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">people smugglers to get back into business," he said. However some public officials - such as those from the <span class="companylink">Australian Secret Intelligence Service</span> - may have immunity from prosecution under Australian law. Luhut Panjaitan, Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> that people who smuggled <b>asylum</b> seekers to Australia should not be "accommodated". "Well they want the big money, that's why they smuggled people to Australia, then you countered by giving money to the owner of the <b>boat</b>," he said. "If you say 'incentive', they can also put the word 'you bribed them' in order to do so. So, I think we have to be careful on this one. I think we look for another approach to solve the problem. We can discuss it, we have to discuss it openly, instead of just</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">[saying] 'you have your own policy, we have our own policy'. The <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report also called for an investigation into a second case of possible payments to crew intercepted by the Australian Navy and Border forces on July 25. It says passengers became suspicious of the contents of two bags they had not seen before which had been given to the captain and crew by Australian officials. However, Indonesian police have said there is no evidence of Australian officials making a payment on the second occasion. <b>Asylum</b> seekers interviewed by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> said while one of the bags contained a mobile phone and a walkie-talkie, they simply didn't know what the second bag contained. "We didn't see inside the other bag, we don't know," said Bangladeshi <b>asylum</b> seeker Mamun Parves.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Emma Kelly   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>557 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A008</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b>'s tale: Afghanistan, a sinking <b>boat</b> and a new life</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Documentary maker Steve Thomas, left, with Canberra mechanic and former <b>refugee</b> Mustafa Jawadi. Photo: ELESA KURTZ By Emma Kelly</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mustafa Jawadi was just seven years old when his family fled war-torn Afghanistan, eventually smuggled by <b>boat</b> towards Australia. The <b>boat</b> they were shuffled on to caught fire and sank. Two people died. Mr Jawadi's family then spent three years detained on Nauru. It was only when a fellow <b>refugee</b> sewed his lips together, sparking a broader hunger strike across the detention centre, that their case was reopened and the family moved to Canberra. Today, the 24-year-old hopes sharing his story in documentary feature film Freedom Stories helps viewers better understand the plight of refugees settling in Australia. Director Steve Thomas says the film, which screens in the capital Saturday afternoon as part of the Canberra International Film Festival, is not an overtly political film. "I wanted to make a human film and allow audiences to have this experience themselves and make up their own minds," he said. Mr Jawadi's story is one of seizing opportunity after a rough beginning: "Once you're at the bottom, the only way is up - and I've been at the bottom". When his parents fled Afghanistan, Australia was accepting refugees. But the family didn't have the family ties or English skills necessary to be eligible. Mr Jawadi's family spent two months in Indonesia before setting sail for Australia. They didn't realise what "people smuggling" involved. After eight days they were intercepted by the Australia navy who eventually decided to take the group to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The [navy] <b>boat</b> came in alongside of us. They gave us a picture of Australia with a cross over it, saying, 'You're not allowed in Australia'. "Some people could speak English, someone screamed out, 'They're going to take us back on this <b>boat</b>'," he said. "People started panicking and the captain, I guess, accelerated the <b>boat</b> to go faster but you could hear the wood start separating. All of a sudden I just see this black smoke coming from behind the <b>boat</b>. "Everyone started jumping out because it was sinking. Two women died tragically. We just heard everyone crying." After a couple of months on Christmas Island, Mr Jawadi's family spent the rest of their three-year detention on Nauru, where his younger brother was born. After the hunger strike, detainees were finally allowed a lawyer and accepted as genuine <b>asylum</b> seekers, first on temporary protection visas and then as citizens. The journey didn't end when Mr Jawadi arrived in Canberra, where he completed school and now works as a mechanic at CWC Autos. "The start was hard, very, very hard, especially going through school and making new friends, not knowing the language perfectly," he said. He hopes his appearance in Freedom Stories shows viewers what he has accomplished as an Australian citizen contributing to the country's economy. "Some people think we just come here and get on the dole, on <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span>," he said. Freedom Stories will be screened at the <span class="companylink">National Film and Sound Archive</span> at 3pm Saturday as part of the Canberra International Film Festival.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1968 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Death that led to island riot</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'I thought it was only in Iran that injustices were done.' Fazel Chegeni</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fazel Chegeni sought justice in Australia, instead he found more brutality, writes MICHAEL GORDON.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iranian Kurdish <b>asylum</b> seeker Fazel Chegeni: His body was found on Sunday after he escaped from the Christmas Island detention centre on Friday. The riot at Christmas Island after the death of Fazel Chegeni. Damage caused by the rioters. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">W hen Peter Dutton was asked this week how it was that Fazel Chegeni, a traumatised and stateless <b>refugee</b>, came to be detained with some of the country's "most hardened criminals" (his words) on Christmas Island, he wasn't the least bit fazed. It wasn't just criminal convictions that were considered when deciding to incarcerate someone in the island's detention centre, he said. A whole range of other factors, "some of which will be publicly available, others of which won't be", were taken into account. "It will go to the threat that they pose to detention centre staff, or threats they might have made against the staff or, indeed, actions within the centre against other detainees - all that forms the risk profile that is determined by the Australian Border Force." Dutton had no comment to make about the case of Chegeni, which will be examined in due course by a coroner, but his message was clear: the stateless Faili Kurd had been consigned to Christmas Island for very good reasons. The only problem with this "trust me, we know what we're doing" response is that it sits uncomfortably with the sad, sad story of Chegeni, whose death over the weekend after he escaped from the centre has left many of those who came into contact with him grief-stricken. "I feel devastated," said Katie Penley, a volunteer yoga teacher at the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation, who came to know Chegeni this year when he began attending her classes. "I cannot understand how it came to be. This is a man who was beautiful and gentle and offered so much, only to be ripped down and disposed of. That's how I feel." Chegeni's death was a catalyst for the riots that caused $10 million damage and strained relations across the Tasman, but it is his back story that raises questions about a detention network where notions of punishment and deterrent are paramount and secrecy rules. Of more than a dozen deaths of <b>asylum</b> seekers in mainland and offshore detention centres and in the community in recent years, including the brutal killing of Reza Barati, a case can be made that Chegeni's is the most troubling. Why? Because his incarceration in centres across the detention network spanned four years (and five immigration ministers from Labor and Coalition governments) and defied repeated advice that this was the last place he should be. <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> has read several emphatic recommendations that Chegeni be removed from the detention environment, from March 2012 until before his transfer to Christmas Island in September. Allwent largely unheeded. One of the first came within six months of his arrival. It noted the "documented clinical evidence" suggesting his mental health had deteriorated since his detention in Australia and warned that "these symptoms will persist and may worsen if his detention in a restrictive environment continues". Three months later, in June 2012, ahealth professional observed: "He has pretty much exhausted his capacity to cope in the detention environment, and is likely to experience a continuing deterioration in his mental health if maintained in this very restrictive detention environment." Chegeni was 30 when he arrived at Christmas Island on October 23, 2011, having left Tehran International Airport on a fake passport and flown to Indonesia before boarding a <b>boat</b> to Australia. His harrowing account of life in Iran was described as "convincing" by the Australian official who gave him <b>refugee</b> status in March 2012. The decision concluded his story was "entirely consistent with current country information regarding stateless Faili Kurds in Iran" and that his fear of persecution if returned to Iran was "well-founded". He came from a very poor family and had moved from their village as a 12 or 13-year-old to Tehran to try to find work to support his parents. In his early 20s he had been attacked at a family wedding and left badly scarred by stab wounds because, as an "undocumented individual" in Iran, he could not receive medical treatment at a hospital (or attend school or be legally employed) and had to be stitched up by a family member. The ugly scars and two tattoos attracted the attention of Iranian authorities two or three years later. He was arrested and spent about 40 days in Khrizan Prison, where he was subjected to degrading horrors before he was released and left for dead in the desert. In his protection application he told how he felt so shamed by the abuse that he shut himself off from friends and family. "Anytime I saw authorities, I would retreat in fear. Icould not function properly. It still haunts me now." Two months after his arrival, and more than two months before he was granted <b>refugee</b> status, Chegeni was involved in an incident at the Curtin Detention Centre that would destroy his hopes for a new beginning in Australia, along with three other <b>asylum</b> seekers, though none were charged with an offence until January of 2013. The fracas was apparently the result of a dispute between Afghan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">and Iranian <b>asylum</b> seekers over access to the limited number of phones in the centre. The four were convicted of assault and given six-month jail terms by a magistrate who has since resigned after being found to have breached procedural fairness in another case. No charges were laid over a subsequent attack on Chegeni that was not captured on CCTV footage that left him with a broken nose and a back injury. Fearing retribution, he declined to lay charges. On appeal, WA Supreme Court commissioner Kevin Sleight found the sentences were "manifestly excessive", but upheld the convictions, placing the four on good behaviour bonds. "The attack lasted for a very short time, about one minute," he said. "The victim was not seriously injured and made a full recovery from his injuries. No property was damaged. No staff were attacked. Order was quickly restored. Each of the appellants has no prior convictions and is of good character." But, because the convictions were upheld, the damage to the four's chances of freedom was done. Well before the court appearances, and in response to the report on his mental deterioration of June 2012, Chegeni was transferred to the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in July that year for specialist trauma and torture counselling at Foundation House.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He was a very unwell young man," says one health professional who came into contact with him. "He never came across as someone who would instigate any violence against anyone else. "He was very fearful, to be honest. He was more afraid of being hurt than anything else and of getting into trouble because he couldn't understand why he remained in detention when he hadn't done anything and he had been found to be a <b>refugee</b>." At the MITA, Chegeni made one of several suicide attempts in detention, jumping off the roof of the building. He was not badly injured, and told <b>refugee</b> advocate Pamela Curr: "God does not want me to die, so I must try to live." In conversation with others, hetold how he worried about his parents still in Iran and seemed perplexed at his own situation. "Ithought it was only in Iran that injustices were done," he said. He also told how, having always been atheist, he had embraced Christianity in detention and developed a capacity to connect with God through meditation. For several months, he was released into community detention and appeared to be making progress, riding his bike around the northern suburbs and walking his friend's dog. A case worker's report noted that, while there'd been several incidents in detention, most involving self- harm, there had been none while he</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">was living in the community. The worker's recommendation that he should remain in the community was confirmed in the final report of his torture and trauma counsellor, who wrote: "Fazel's health is likely to deteriorate further if he remains in a detention environment, which he experiences as very punitive." But this short burst of relative freedom ended in December of 2013, when then immigration minister Scott Morrison revoked his community detention on the grounds that he had been charged with a criminal offence. This, according to those he confided in, only confirmed his sense of hopelessness. His sense of injustice gnawed at him, and was propelled by the knowledge that those who had attacked him were now free and making a fresh start in their new country. Then came his transfer to Brisbane where he made a big</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">impression on Katie Penley, helping her communicate in yoga classes with those whose English was worse than his. "At the end of the first class he stayed back and wanted to talk about the spiritual side of yoga and meditation and a friendship developed from that," she recalls. The news that his sister had died in Iran then propelled the onset of depression and several acts of self- harm that prompted his transfer to Darwin and, apparently, to Christmas Island in September. Friends noted how he retreated deep inside himself. When <b>refugee</b> advocate Geoff McKeich expressed alarm that Chegeni had been transferred to Christmas Island, he was told it "was due to departmental operational requirement and to ensure capacity is maintained at mainland detention centres". McKeich was unimpressed. "Should Fazel not be released into community detention the department must take responsibility for any further deterioration in Fazel's health and mental state," he wrote to the department on September 25. A case worker later told McKeich that Chegeni wanted McKeich to remain his authorised contact on hisapplication for a temporary protection visa, but did not want any direct contact. "If I was to guess - and it is purely a guess - I would say he doesn't have the mental energy to engage in visa/legal discussions," he wrote in an email on October 27.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Even yesterday he was not overly interested in receiving too much information," the email continued, explaining that Chegeni listened to the broad concepts of his visa options "but did not appear to want to hear the finer details". One of those in detention on Christmas Island who was housed in the same compound as Chegeni made the same observation when he spoke to <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> during the riot that followed Chegeni's death. The detainee said Chegeni, who was over 182 centimetres, said little and ate less, assessing he weighed less than 50 kilograms. He could not fathom how Chegeni mustered the energy to scale the fence. Speaking before detainees lost mobile phone access, the detainee later told his migration agent Marion Le: "Everything that could be destroyed has been. The death of the Iranian man sparked it. It was basically because everyone was so concerned over the treatment he didn't get." While the focus since has been on the behaviour of those who escalated a peaceful protest into a violent riot, and the conditions facing those detainees who were not involved, Chegeni's passing has been marked by solemn gatherings across the country and on Manus Island. At a multi-faith commemoration at the MITA on Thursday, one detainee found something positive to say: "Fazel is free now. God gave him a visa."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcivds : Civil Disruption | gcat : Political/General News | gcns : National Security | gpir : Politics/International Relations | grisk : Risk News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>iran : Iran | austr : Australia | brisbn : Brisbane | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | gulfstz : Persian Gulf Region | meastz : Middle East | queensl : Queensland | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020151113ebbe0001l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020151113ebbe00014" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>No reset yet in Australia-Indonesia relationship</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>982 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>B006</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No reset yet in Australia-Indonesia relationship</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull turns on charm but speed-dating won't work, writes DUNCAN GRAHAM.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'The seventh president is not a military fascist. What you see is what you get.'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I nstead of a long state visit Malcolm Turnbull used a 10-hour Jakarta stopover for his first official trip as Australian Prime Minister to meet the northern neighbours. The much-reported reason before he dashed on to Berlin was to "reset" the relationship. A "reset" follows a circuit-breaker trip. Flick a switch and if there's no system fault the lights come on. Easy. Not this time. After a year in office we understand little about President Joko (Jokowi) Widodo other than he's indecisive, believes shooting traffickers fixes drug problems, and is powerless to stop regular illegal firestick-farming threatening world health. We also know the leader of the world's third largest democracy blows thought bubbles (which his ministers pop) on issues such as joining the TPP, and appears awkward at international events. The Jakarta Post explained this was his "contemplative nature". Much is scuttlebutt - that he doesn't read documents, is beholden to oligarchs and bored by foreign affairs. News clips of his meeting last month in the US with Barack Obama and business heads did nothing to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">erase these calumnies. On the upside, the nation has not been ripped by vengeful losers following the 2014 election. There have been health care reforms and fuel subsidies partially removed. The seventh president is not a military fascist. What you see is what you get, a plain man free of guile. His party patron Megawati Sukarnoputri once claimed he was too thin to be a real politician. If girth equals graft then slender Jokowi should be whistle-clean. This doesn't help him wade through Jakarta's political slime pit, but it endears him to the electorate, though love is on the wane. Polls showing approval down from 70 to 50 per cent in a year reflect dismay that performance hasn't matched promise. He's failed the smoke alarm test with the fires in Kalimantan; now another challenge looms - a rice shortage following droughts. If prices rocket with imports, the masses will not confine their rage to tweets. Real warmth between the two leaders will probably remain elusive</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">but Turnbull did well - he smiled a lot and it looked sincere. Abbott-style pugnacity wins no friends in the republic, where personality trumps policy and visitors must be halus - refined, gracious and sensitive - and have a sense of fun. The PM and his wife Lucy obliged. Charm disarms. Jokowi took Turnbull to the overcrowded Tanah Abang textile market for one of his trademark blusukan (walkabout among ordinary folk). Indonesian media described the informal scene as "hot, stuffy and boisterous" but Jokowi was in his element, looking happier than usual. Jacketless Turnbull, snapping selfies, seemed amused. Certainly a few hours' face time is better than a diplomatic note, but change won't come through speed dating. This courtship needs to be Java- style - slow and seemly. Turnbull, seeking contact points spoke of both being in business. The link is slight. The silvertail lawyer and banker grew up with vistas of Sydney Harbour; the provincial furniture trader was raised in a shack illegally</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">pitched by the Solo River - not for the view but its ablution values. One was a Rhodes Scholar - the other an unexceptional forestry graduate. Now the two men have to see each other's perspective. The other much-thumped drum is that Indonesia is "our most important relationship". Absolutely - though the feeling is one-way. More worrying is that Australian governments have long been hypocritical, disbelieving their own rhetoric. If otherwise, the Turnbulls would have spent relaxed days, not hours in Indonesia, reviving friendships built</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">over long careers in public life. The Turnbull trip listed the standard trinity of topics favoured by visiting Australian politicians - trade, security and investment. All important, but having no immediate impact on the daily lives of the toilers; they tend to see their neighbour seeking to control Christian Eastern Indonesia according to polls cited by Melbourne University professor Tim Lindsey. Sensitive issues such as the death penalty and visas were off the agenda. The problem of 11,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers stuck in the archipelago while heading to Australia was apparently not addressed. This was despite Indonesian kite- flying ahead of the leaders' meeting, which Turnbull kept stressing was about "jobs and growth". So the failed <b>boat</b> people's fate remains a pebble in the shoe. After the meeting came statements no-one could fault - the need for more co-operation, cattle breeding and tourism. No detail, no contracts, no aid packages. Contrary to some media reports</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">this was not Turnbull's first overseas trip as PM. His priority was tiny, placid New Zealand for two days last month. He'll spend more time in Malaysia coming back from Europe than the nation where the relationship is allegedly so important. Academics, business people and others with long-term knowledge of Indonesia say building good connections needs time and personal engagement. This trip says the government knows it knows better. Indonesians are too polite to say so, but they recognise the realities: the Australian PM comes across far better than Abbott. He appeared to have had a fun break. But his real mission was in Europe where he'll meet 19 other world leaders. No reset yet. The system faults remain but the two men seem to have found a switch. Maybe the switch. Australian journalist and author Duncan Graham lives in East Java and writes for the Indonesian media. This article was also published at New Mandala, Australia's premier website on south-east Asia and hosted by the ANU Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020151113ebbe00014</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020151112ebbd0005x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>CART BLANCHE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEVEN SCOTT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>369 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo to significantly boost live cattle imports from Australia as he sets about trying to ease tensions with Jakarta.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shrugging off concerns about <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks and the execution of Australian drug smugglers, which have soured the relationship between Australia and Indonesia, Mr Turnbull said he wanted to dramatically revive trade.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meeting in Jakarta’s Presidential Palace, Mr Turnbull appealed to Mr Widodo’s business background to improve the frosty relationship that developed under former prime minister Tony Abbott.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a sign that Indonesia could move to a higher ann­ual quota for live cattle imports rather than the current quarterly quotas that leave Australian farmers without certainty, Mr Turnbull said both leaders wanted to improve the trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is complement between northern Australia and Indonesia and breeding and growing cattle in Australia and exporting them as live ­exports to Indonesia for fattening and processing,” Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Both of us, as former businessmen, understand the importance for certainty and clarity in that. I think we’ve got a common vision there.” The two leaders also discussed infrastructure investment and shared efforts to tackle terrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Turnbull placed great emphasis on business ties as he tried to recast what has become an awkward relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After formal events in the palace, Mr Turnbull visited the Tanah Abang market with Mr Widodo and other Indonesian ministers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Widodo is renowned for meeting voters in shopping malls and markets and Mr Turnbull is the first foreign leader to be invited to take part in one of the tours. In chaotic scenes, shoppers cheered and crowded around Mr Widodo and Mr Turnbull as they toured the heaving textile market.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With sweat streaming off them after walking through the market, the two leaders took off their jackets and ties and were met with whistles from the crowd. Mr Widodo said he took Mr Turnbull to the market “so the people would know how Indonesia and Australia are close”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trade Minister Andrew Robb will next week take 300 Australian business leaders to Indonesia to boost trade.Mr Turnbull today heads to Berlin for meetings before the G20 in Turkey.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gdrug : Drug Trafficking/Dealing | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gpir : Politics/International Relations | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020151112ebbd0005x</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020151112ebbd0001y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Commentary</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Tough policy, good outcome</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>525 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Re-encouraging people-smugglers would be disastrous</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malcolm Turnbull and Indonesian President Joko Widodo began a new chapter in our bilateral relationship yesterday, largely free from tensions created by the tens of thousands of <b>asylum</b>-seekers who once poured into Indonesia en route to Australia. The Coalition’s success in stopping people-smugglers’ boats has benefited both nations. More importantly, it has saved lives at sea and freed us up to welcome more refugees from the world’s war zones, including an extra 12,000 Syrians. People-smugglers and self-selection by <b>asylum</b>-seekers who paid them had all but destroyed our capacity to take refugees based on need.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From a humanitarian, strategic and economic perspective it would be unconscionable for Australia to put the sugar back on the table, as former Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono once described it. Our nation must never again lose control of our borders and our immigration program. Only fools or those with scant regard for refugees’ lives and wellbeing and the integrity of our borders would argue for the reversal of the successful policies enacted by Tony Abbott. Since the Coalition stopped the boats, it also has been able to close 13 of 17 detention centres that were needed under Labor’s failed policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In scolding Australia this week for our stance on border protection, the <span class="companylink">UN Human Rights Council</span> showed little interest in such realities, however. In Geneva on Monday, upstanding bastions of human rights such as North Korea, Egypt, Iran and Fiji took Australia to task over offshore processing, <b>boat</b> pushbacks and mandatory detention. Australia’s representative, Andrew Goledzinowski, told the council that after more than 1200 migrants, including children, died in attempting to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>, Australians could no longer tolerate such a level of carnage. He also reassured the council that “no <b>asylum</b>-seeker who engages our protection obligations is ever returned to a situation of danger”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Concern for life and safety, however, was obviously an alien concept for North Korea’s spokesman, who professed concern about our “maltreatment” and “violence” towards <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Given the chance, North Korean “dissidents” enduring torture, starvation and awaiting execution in prison camps would readily swap places with those detained on Nauru. And if they heard about it, Egyptians suffering under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s repressive regime must have wondered at Egypt’s representative decrying Australia’s “racial discrimination and violence, rising Islamophobia”. Predictably, European nations — struggling under the problems of their open-slather immigration policies — joined the fray. The session prompted knee-jerk responses from Labor’s Tanya Plibersek and Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who claimed, erroneously, that relationships with our allies were being undermined.Border protection, however, is a fundamental matter for sovereign states to determine independently. While Australia has more to do to repatriate or find third countries to resettle 1565 people still on Nauru and Manus Island, our response to what is a complex, difficult problem is one of the most successful in the world. It is also one of the world’s most generous, accepting high numbers of refugees per capita through the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | egypt : Egypt | nkorea : North Korea | indon : Indonesia | africaz : Africa | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | easiaz : Eastern Asia | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | nafrz : North Africa | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151112ebbd0001y</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151111ebbc0004z" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Christmas Island proves need for humane policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>749 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Something is terribly wrong when the Immigration Department finds it acceptable to dehumanise a dead man by calling him "an illegal maritime arrival" and "escapee" after he fled a detention centre housing hardened criminals. There is no excuse for treating people as expendable objects of immigration policy, no matter how many Australians support strong border protection and mandatory detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The department's cold statements on Sunday about Iranian-Kurd Fazel Chegeni - found at the foot of a cliff on Christmas Island - stand in stark contrast to former prime minister Julia Gillard's concession last week. "You don't quite know what it's like as prime minister to get the telephone call ... from your defence forces that tell you that they suspect that an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> has gone down," Ms Gillard said.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both Labor and the Coalition justify mandatory detention as a part of an essential deterrent so that <b>asylum</b> seekers do not pay people smugglers and take risky journeys at sea. The Herald understands the rationale. We accept that the policy has worked in stopping the boats and saving many lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the deterrence policy does not have to stoop to cruelty to be effective. The government has a duty to ensure people are treated humanely, with dignity and empathy. We need better oversight, transparency, processing and deals to resettle refugees. The best way to accomplish that is to establish an independent overseer of the system in tandem with a reassembled Houston experts' panel to develop many more resettlement programs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chegeni's death prompted a peaceful protest by fellow Iranian detainees at the Christmas Island centre, which houses about 200 people. Some other detainees seized on the protest and turned violent. There can be no excuse for that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But a bigger issue is at stake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chegeni had been recognised as a <b>refugee</b> living in the community in 2013. He was soon detained again after being convicted over a vicious one-minute fight with a fellow detainee at another detention centre. On appeal, the sentence of six months was found to be manifestly excessive, but the conviction stood. As such he lost his protections under toughened visa character test rules.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With no boats arriving and detainee numbers falling, many detention centres have closed. As a result, about 50 <b>asylum</b> seekers on Christmas Island - along with Chegeni and other refugees - were housed near convicted criminals whose visas had also been revoked under toughened character tests. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton cited outlaw motorcycle gang members, rapists, child-sex offenders and people who have assaulted security personnel. He insists each detainee is assessed to determine the required security level of accommodation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People are entitled to ask, though, whether some <b>boat</b> people or otherwise innocent visa over-stayers are being jailed rather than simply held awaiting rapid processing and resettlement or deportation. Indeed, some detainees had been placed in a separate area of the Christmas Island facility to protect them. In such circumstances, how many detainees will try to flee, become criminalised or emerge mentally scarred for life?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the government continues its denial of cruelty. Scores of countries pilloried Australia at a United Nations Human Rights Commission hearing in Geneva this week. True, some nations have their own agendas, and Mr Dutton dismissed criticisms from countries with their own appalling records: "My favourite contribution to this <span class="companylink">UN</span> process was from North Korea - a bastion of human rights."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He failed to mention that the US also encouraged Australia to "ensure humane treatment and respect for the human rights of <b>asylum</b> seekers, including those processed offshore". The processing of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers should be "closely monitored", Washington said. Neither did Mr Dutton mention that the vast majority of complaints focused on the detention of children - something indefensible by any count.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia was represented at the hearings by, among others, long-time Liberal MP and former immigration minister Philip Ruddock. He helped design the "Pacific Solution": the forerunner to the current offshore detention system. Mr Ruddock calls himself a "Liberal for refugees" and says an orderly border control policy allows Australia to accept more refugees from camps closer to their source. The Herald recognises this as a laudable aim. Indeed, we would urge the government to increase the <b>refugee</b> intake much more than simply taking extra people who have fled Syria. Yet again, however, the same outcomes can be achieved through a more humane, transparent, accountable and expeditious <b>refugee</b> policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gdip : International Relations | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nedi : Editorials | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | chr : Christmas Island | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151111ebbc0004z</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020151111ebbc0002r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Activists are now mob of moral show ponies</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ANDREW BOLT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>806 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN activist “campaigns to bring about political or social change”, claims my dictionary. Time for a rewrite. This month brings more evidence that many activists actually just fool people to bring about change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Activist” has become a dirty word, thanks particularly to human rights and environmental activists.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To many Australians, the word now describes a moral show pony who exaggerates, fulminates obfuscates — and in some cases, gasp, even fabricates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet they can forgive themselves all this in the shiny-eyed certainty that their cause is holy. Their good cause licenses them to act badly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For instance, next month 40,000 green activists, bureaucrats and politicians will fly to Paris for climate talks to demand the rest of us stop emitting exactly the gases they blew out the back of their jets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And why 40,000, to preach against over-consumption? If each spoke for just one minute, non-stop, the Paris meeting would last four weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And what then? Even if every pre-Paris proposal made by every country to cut emissions were implemented in full to the end of the century, the temperature by then would be lowered by just 0.17 degrees at most, says Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week came another example of how “activist” has become a trashed brand, this time through hyperbole and double standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">United Nations’ Human Rights Council</span> is sitting in judgment of our treatment of illegal immigrants, and has reportedly been swamped by complaints from other countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An activist from the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law claimed this made “manifestly clear that we are not role models on issues of <b>asylum</b>, we are pariahs”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another from the Human Rights Law Centre said, “Australia’s potential to be a human rights leader is being completely undercut”. But wait. This great nation is actually a human rights “pariah”? Seriously?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And check some of the countries whose complaints are meant to shame us. There’s North Korea, for God’s sake. And Bangladesh.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Turkey, fresh from taking over media outlets which criticised its president. Also check some of the dictators and autocrats on this Human Rights Council whose moral judgment we must now fear: China, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, check the obscenity our “pariah” policy has ended: the drowning of 1200 people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the activists weren’t finished. They then exploited the riots by detainees at Christmas Island after an Iranian <b>boat</b> person escaped and promptly fell off a cliff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Activists from <b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition insisted “Christmas Island should be closed” because it was “being used as the punishment centre of the government’s detention regime”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, “Fazal (Chegeni), whose death ignited the tensions inside the detention centre, should never have been in detention.” Some of the New Zealanders detained with him were there for nothing more than “shoplifting”, a Maori activist complained to the ABC.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, Chegeni had been jailed for bashing another inmate (although the sentence was suspended on appeal).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The riot was primarily the work of about 40 New Zealanders being deported for committing crimes that had attracted a sentence of at least one year, including rape, manslaughter, assault, extortion and causing serious bodily harm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The shoplifter had a long record, including breaking and entering. And still the activists weren’t finished, announcing a legal challenge to Queensland’s giant Adani coal project.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Adani claims its mine will create 10,000 jobs and generate $22 billion in taxes and royalties, needed for pensions and health care. It will also supply coal for electricity to lift India’s poor out of backbreaking drudgery.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But first the Mackay Conservation Group claimed the mine threatened the yakka skink and the ornamental snake, and launched legal action that halted the project for months while the Government proved the claim false.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now the <span class="companylink">Australian Conservation Foundation</span> claims the mine threatens the black-throated finch.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Birds above people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">ACF</span> also claims that giving Indians this coal to burn could damage our Great Barrier Reef by heating the oceans to coral-killing highs. More nonsense. If you believe <span class="companylink">Greenpeace</span>, burning all that coal would increase world emissions of carbon dioxide by nearly 0.4 per cent a year, but that’s only if India didn’t burn something else instead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nor would that alleged 0.4 per cent increase make any measurable difference to the temperature.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Consider: Since 2000, world emissions have jumped an average of nearly 3 per cent every single year, yet air temperatures have stayed flat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Reef still looks fantastic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As for that black-throated finch, the mine already must protect and improve 31,000ha of habitat, which actually helps the bird.No, no wonder “activist” is today a term of abuse.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Serco agrees to new terms</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ASHLEY MANICAROS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>552 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNewsBR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Company’s loss-making contract to service patrol boats will end five years early, ASHLEY MANICAROS reports Outsourcing company <span class="companylink">Serco</span> has struck a deal with the Australian Government to exit a loss-making contract maintaining patrol boats for the navy, Minister for Defence Senator Marise Payne has confirmed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sen Payne confirmed an agreement was signed on Monday between Defence and <span class="companylink">Serco</span> that will see the Armidale Class Patrol <b>Boat</b> in-service support contract conclude five years early in 2017.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This agreement will not affect where the ACPBs are based or the requirement for the in-service support contract to meet the 90 per cent Australian content requirement,” Sen Payne said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Over time there have been ongoing issues of poor availability performance with the Armidale Class Patrol Boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Despite work from both Defence and <span class="companylink">Serco</span>, performance management measures provided for in the contract have not achieved the desired availability outcomes and it is now mutually agreed that this contract should come to an end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“<span class="companylink">Serco</span> will continue to provide in-service support for the remainder of the current contract while Defence prepares and executes a competitive tender process for the ACPB in-service support contract.” The <span class="companylink">Financial Times</span> website is reporting <span class="companylink">Serco</span>, which began the patrol boats contract in 2010, was the “biggest onerous contract provision” in last year’s <span class="companylink">Serco</span> accounts and had contributed to a $A2.9 billion loss in 2014. It ran into trouble more than a year ago when the hulls on the boats began to corrode and crack as a result of poor maintenance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Darwin and Cairns primarily host and service Australia’s patrol boats. It comes at a time when the NT Government has announced its intention to use up to $100 million to partner with the private sector to create a $500 million, 140 hectare Marine Industry Park with a ship-lift facility to ­tar-get Defence and private sector maintenance contracts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chief Minister Adam Giles said the project could create up to 4500 jobs with money coming from the proceeds of the 99-year leasing of the Darwin port.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED PAGE 2 Marine park interest fires up as defence companies take aim FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Government sources have revealed at least five major defence contractors have made contact expressing interest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The NT News understands these could include Austal which produces defence vessels from manufacturing operations in Henderson, Western Australia and the United States as well as commercial ships in the Philippines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Serco</span> has agreed the contract will end in June 2017, rather than running through to 2022.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The company will provide maintenance and remediation work on the boats, which are used partly to patrol coastal waters looking for migrant vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both parties have reportedly agreed not to make further claims. The NT Government is working to get the terms of the expression of interest finalised for the Marine Industry Park so it can be released before the end of the this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian Government is one of <span class="companylink">Serco</span>’s biggest customers. This year the company agreed a 20-year, $A500 million project to oversee the delivery of Australia’s new Antarctic icebreaking vessel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also retains a deal providing accommodation for <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia, where revenues have fallen sharplybecause of a reduction in arrival numbers.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Security review after riot at centre</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>STEFANIE BALOGH, PAIGE TAYLOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>528 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Security arrangements on Christmas Island will be ­reviewed after rioters armed with makeshift weapons rampaged through the detention centre, causing more than $1 million damage before being subdued with force and teargas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After almost two days of chaos at the offshore centre, the Immigration Department confirmed a morning operation had wrested back control after two planeloads of <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> and guard reinforcements were dispatched to the island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The department said most of the detainees co-operated with authorities but “some force was used with a core group of detainees who had built barricades and actively resisted attempts to ­secure compounds, including threatened use of weapons and improvised weapons’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed there was “some use of teargas’’ to end the tense standoff but said he had no advice about whether authorities fired rubber bullets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Witnesses provided chilling descriptions of the lawlessness at the centre which broke out late on Sunday night on the tiny Australian territory 2600km northwest of Perth and escalated into rolling violence and fires.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the riot squad prepared to storm the centre yesterday, New Zealand Christmas Island ­detainee Tuk Whakatutu told New Zealand radio program Morning Report that a small group was “all tooled up”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They’ve got petrol bombs, they’ve got machetes, they’ve got chainsaws, metal bars; all sorts,’’ he said. The rioters had the run of the compound and had broken into garden sheds to look for weapons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s just going crazy. I want nothing to do with it, but all the young fellas are geed up, they want to go to war with them,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five detainees received minor cuts and non-life threatening injuries during the police operation. No police were hurt.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The centre remains calm, with detainees secured in undamaged areas of the centre. Food, fluid and medical support continues to be provided,’’ the department said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton, who estimated the damage could exceed $1m, said security had been beefed up at the centre but confirmed there would now be a review of security arrangements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are lessons to be learnt, no doubt,’’ he said. “The fact that this incident started in the first place, we need to examine that and we need to examine the response initially by the officers.’’ He said “the vast majority of people within the Christmas ­Island detention centre are serious criminals’’ and “the population has hardened’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The number of foreign criminals awaiting deportation or challenging the cancellation of their visas through the courts has increased since the government ruled visas can be cancelled on character grounds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christmas Island houses 199 people, and about one-quarter are <b>asylum</b>-seekers. Most — 133 detainees — are there because of criminal visa cancellations, ­including 11 people convicted of armed robbery, 27 for assault, five for child-sex offences and two convicted for manslaughter.The outbreak of violence was sparked after detainees learned of the death of Fazal Chegeni, an Iranian Kurd who had been mostly in detention since arriving in Australia by <b>boat</b> in late 2010. Mr Chegeni had escaped, possibly on Friday, and searchers found his body on Sunday.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Nick Miller   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>450 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Policy draws <span class="companylink">UN</span> grilling on human rights</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Nick Miller</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has copped a barrage of criticism at a United Nations human rights forum over its treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers. But Australia was defiant as dozens of countries called on it to wind back or end <b>boat</b> turn-backs and mandatory detention, and grant refugees their full rights. Australia's delegation, which included MP Philip Ruddock, insisted the methods were necessary, and had saved lives. The <span class="companylink">UN Human Rights Council</span>'s official review of Australia's human rights policies took place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Monday. The scrutiny comes at a time when Australia is vying for a two- year term on the council. During the review, representatives from more than</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">100 countries gave recommendations on how Australia should improve its human rights record. Countries including Brazil, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Bangladesh ï¿½ even Rwanda, Iran and North Korea ï¿½ expressed concern over Australia's treatment of refugees. The presence of women and children in detention centres came in for particular criticism. Many countries called for Australia to ratify OPCAT ï¿½ an international convention against torture, which would expose offshore <b>asylum</b> seeker detention centres to new international oversight and review. Countries taking part also noted Australia's inadequate treatment of Indigenous people, high level of violence against women, and the spread of Islamophobia. France's spokesman Thomas</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Wagner called for Australia to "develop alternatives to the mandatory detention of <b>asylum</b> seekers, especially when dealing with children". Germany's representative said Australia should "critically review" offshore processing. He recommended Australia remove "children and their families, and other individuals at risk ï¿½ in particular survivors of torture and trauma" from detention centres. Bangladesh's representative said Australia's response to migrant arrivals had "set a poor benchmark", calling for the repeal of mandatory detention for <b>asylum</b> seekers - and she was also concerned by "first-hand reports of discrimination and racism, particularly associated with Islamophobia". The United States encouraged Australia to "ensure humane</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">treatment and respect for the human rights of <b>asylum</b> seekers, including those processed offshore". The US said the processing of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers should be "closely monitored", though it stopped short of calling for the offshore centres to be closed. Countries not normally celebrated for their human rights records joined the criticism. North Korea's representative said his country was "seriously concerned at continued maltreatment of and violence against the refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers". Iran expressed its "deep concern about the mandatory immigration detention regime". And China said Australia should safeguard the human rights of "all refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers who reach Australian shores".</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smugglers get 'payments' back</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield Rote Island With Amilia Rosa   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>356 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police in Indonesia returned $US30,000 ($42,550) to the <b>boat</b> crew who were allegedly paid by Australian officials to return a <b>boat</b> of 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia, according to the men's lawyer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Six Indonesian crew members are being tried on Rote Island in Indonesia on people smuggling charges that carry up to 15 years jail.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Defence lawyer Yesaya Dae Panie said outside court on Tuesday that the money had been returned to the crew members once they were released from police custody and this was confirmed by Rote police chief Murri Miranda.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court had earlier heard that Captain Yohanis Humiang was recruited by Indra Reza Rumambi in March 2015 to take a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers to New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prosecutor Alexander Sele said the captain was offered a fee of 150 million rupiah ($15,655) and the remaining five crew members were offered fees of 100 million rupiah each to make the journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That payment would be made after they managed to reach New Zealand carrying 65 immigrants - 58 adult males, four adult females and three children," Mr Sele said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said between February and April the <b>asylum</b> seekers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar were recruited by Sri Lankan people smuggling agent Visvhanatan Thineskumar, aka Kugan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b> seekers were told that anyone wishing to go to New Zealand had to pay $US6000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Once the payment made to Kugan, the immigrants were placed in temporary housing in Cisarua, before being taken by the defendant and the five crew to New Zealand," Mr Sele said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court heard the <b>boat</b>, Andika, West Java on April 30.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However it was intercepted by an Australian Customs speedboat and passengers were given brochures saying they couldn't enter Australia without proper visa or complete documents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court heard Andika sailed for two more days but was then intercepted by Australian Customs and the Australian Navy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Before being ordered to return to indonesia, the defendant and five crew were given a sum of $US5000 each," Mr Sele said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Police sent to calm Christmas Island</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR STEFANIE BALOGH   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>769 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two planeloads of <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> and guards were on their way to Christmas Island last night to try to wrest back control of the immigration detention centre from a group of detainees engaged in a stand-off after the death of an escapee.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reinforcements, including more than 15 members of ­government contractor Serco’s emergency response team stat­ioned at Sydney’s Villawood ­detention centre, were due to ­arrive overnight on the tiny ­Australian territory 2600km northwest of Perth.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are responding to rolling violence and fires that kicked off inside the island’s detention centre at about midnight on ­Sunday (4am AEDT yesterday).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marauding inmates set fire to the medical clinic inside the ­centre and trashed and looted the canteen, taking cigarettes and chocolates. Guards from <span class="companylink">Serco</span>, which manages the centre for the federal government, were evacuated for their safety, as they were in 2011 during massive riots that almost razed the centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the priority was to ­restore order and limit damage to commonwealth property.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Negotiations are continuing with those detainees engaging in protest action, with a view to ­resolving the situation,” the ­Immigration Department said last night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Howard government built the centre at a cost of $400 million to hold all <b>asylum</b>- seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>, but the cohort of detainees there has changed markedly in the past year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton confirmed it was now for high-risk detainees who had committed a crime while in the community or in detention, as well as citizens of other countries who were not <b>asylum</b>-­seekers and were being deported under the Coalition’s tough new character test. He said there were “some significant criminals” in the centre. “We want to make sure that control can be regained as quickly as possible, and order restored,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A sit-down protest began in the centre on Sunday night after detainees learned of the death of Fazal Chegeni, an Iranian Kurd who had been mostly in detention since arriving in Australia by <b>boat</b> in late 2010. Mr Chegeni had escaped, possibly on Friday, and searchers found his body on Sunday morning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian Border Force commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg said some “opportunist” detainees took advantage of the distress over Mr Chegeni’s death to foment restiveness.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Chegeni is understood to have attempted self-harm previously, and <b>refugee</b> advocates have described him as a victim of long-term detention. He was at Christmas Island after being convicted over a fight at the Curtin detention centre, according to <b>refugee</b> advocate Ian Rintoul.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton described Mr Chegeni’s death as tragic and said there would be an inquiry into how he had escaped as well as a coronial inquest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christmas Island administrator Barry Haase yesterday provided the island’s approximately 1200 residents with their first direct communication about the escape, the death and the violence in an email that described the situation at the centre as unfolding, sensitive and volatile. He also offered new information about the discovery of Mr Chegeni’s body.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The escapee’s body was discovered by search and rescue teams on Sunday morning at the bottom of cliffs away from the centre,” Mr Haase wrote. “The cause of his death is not currently known.” Mr Dutton said some of the detainees on the island had “serious backgrounds’’, having committed manslaughter or indecent assaults. Others were members of outlaw motorcycle gangs. “Generally speaking those people of the highest risk, or those of medium to high risk will be accommodated within the immigration detention centre on Christmas Island and they would be, in many cases, awaiting deportation,” Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said a number of detainees had removed themselves from the activity of those who were causing trouble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One man asked to leave the centre for medical attention unrelated to the disturbance, and was taken by ambulance to the local hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said he did not have an exact number of people involved in the unrest. Earlier, he told parliament there were 203 detainees at the Christmas Island centre, a far cry from the more than 3000 detainees on the island during the last major riots 4½ years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor seized on the unrest to repeat its calls for greater oversight of all onshore and offshore immigration facilities. Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said: “Labor would put in place independent oversight of all Australian-funded facilities.’’Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she was “very concerned that people seeking <b>asylum</b> have been locked up with other detainees, putting them at risk’’.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>aufpol : Australian Federal Police</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | chr : Christmas Island | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151110ebba00002</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020151109ebba0001x" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Commentary</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Government must work harder on resettlement</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>704 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Detained <b>asylum</b>-seekers are a legacy of stopping the boats</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fazel Chegeni, an Iranian Kurd who arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2010, reportedly has died after escaping from the Christmas Island detention centre. The circumstances of his death are not clear but thoughts inevitably turn to others who remain in detention, most of them in Nauru and Manus Island, and who have uncertain futures. The government is surely right that resettlement in Australia would only encourage people-smugglers to reopen the risky human trade shut down by Operation Sovereign Borders. The corollary of this truth is a duty to expedite third-country resettlement. It is a human legacy left over from our defeat of the people-smugglers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the end of September there were 1565 people held in Nauru and Manus Island. It’s true that the number in immigration detention more generally has declined under this government. The increase under Labor peaked at more than 12,000 in January 2013 and has since fallen considerably. Even so, in Nauru and Manus Island we are dealing with many individuals and families kept in a state of limbo. It’s not clear that they knew they were breaking the law at the time of their arrival. Quite apart from their plight, they consume as a group disproportionate resources in a world that within the past year has added several million people to the stock of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some commentators say Malcolm Turnbull should do a Howard. John Howard’s Pacific Solution was not as implacable as it seemed. Of the 1153 <b>asylum</b>-seekers resettled from Nauru and Manus Island between 2001 and 2008, about 30 per cent returned home, 30 per cent went to other countries (chiefly New Zealand) and 40 per cent came to Australia. In short, more than half won the prize of resettlement in a developed nation. But the crucial point is that it was done on the quiet so as not to encourage the people-smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was broadcast later by political opponents — Kevin Rudd included — who sought to tarnish the Pacific Solution. In the 2013 election campaign, Mr Rudd said: “The truth about the Pacific Solution is that 70 per cent, thereabouts, of those people sent by Mr Howard to Nauru and elsewhere as part of the Pacific Solution used it as a way station and within a couple of years were in Australia anyway.” The legacy of this affair is that it would be impossible for the Turnbull government to resettle in Australia illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals from Nauru or Manus Island without giving people-smugglers a green light. <b>Refugee</b> activists and the Greens would promptly announce the fact to the world to apply pressure to Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This leaves the government with two options: persuade <b>asylum</b>-seekers to go home or arrange resettlement in a third country. So far there is little sign of third-country arrangements on any scale. Under a $55 million resettlement deal between Australia and Cambodia, the first four <b>asylum</b>-seekers from Nauru arrived in the capital Phnom Penh in June. In September, after some ambiguous signals, the Cambodian government said it was ready to take in more <b>asylum</b>-seekers in groups of four or five. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said at the time that other <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru had expressed interest in going to Cambodia; he gave no details.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last month, this newspaper reported that Australia was considering the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan as a resettlement partner — particularly for Hazara people from ­Afghanistan. And last month this newspaper’s Chris Kenny reported that Nauru’s President, Baron Waqa, expected that some <b>asylum</b>-seekers conceivably could opt to stay as permanent residents of his republic.These arrangements — some of them mere possibilities — do not seem sufficient for the challenge facing the government. The solution is unlikely to be easy or inexpensive but it must be found. The fact offshore processing is now bipartisan policy should not mean that the imperative to resettle receives less attention. The success of Operation Sovereign Borders will be judged not only by the disappearance of overcrowded boats bound for Christmas Island but also by humane and workable resettlement of those in detention.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>kampa : Cambodia | nauru : Nauru | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indochz : Indo-China | pacisz : Pacific Islands | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151109ebba0001x</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151108ebb900004" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>More places for Syrian refugees likely: Dutton</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Judith Ireland   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>505 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Humanitarian crisis- Minister visits Jordan</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has again given strong hints that the federal government may increase its emergency intake of Syrian refugees.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton, who has returned from visiting <b>refugee</b> camps in Jordan, told the ABC's Insiders that "more assistance" for Syrians would be needed because "the situation is going to deteriorate".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of Tony Abbott 's last acts as prime minister in September was to announce that Australia would permanently resettle 12,000 refugees from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said that women, children and families from persecuted minorities who were sheltering in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey would take priority. He also announced $44 million in aid to supply refugees in the Middle East with cash, food, water and blankets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although the Coalition had previously suggested that it could provide more support, Mr Dutton reaffirmed the government's open mind on the subject after his trip to Jordan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said 4.2 million people had left Syria and 7 million were internally displaced in the country and "it's a situation getting worse".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, he said Australia needed to demonstrate it could bring the first group into the country without any problems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton cautioned that "there are a lot of people running round with fraudulent documents pretending to be Syrians".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was more cautious about an increase in the special intake of Syrian refugees - which is separate from the 13,750 person quota for Australia's humanitarian program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We have no plans to increase the number that we will take," Mr Turnbull said. "Any changes to the policy would be taken carefully by the cabinet."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said there was a "bidding war" between states and territories in Australia over how many Syrian refugees they would receive. "That's a great thing. I think people recognise that we have the capacity to help those who are genuinely in need."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton also continued to insist Australian officials did not break the law after a recent <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report said government employees paid people smugglers to return a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He specified that Border Force officers had "acted within the law" and there was no evidence in the report of "illegal action".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Insiders host Barrie Cassidy pressed Mr Dutton that he was "simply arguing [payments are] not against the law" rather than arguing Australia did not pay people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton replied that he would not have his word "framed".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm putting to you that the government operates within the law; we've done that consistently in relation to Operation Sovereign Borders," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In June, <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> revealed Indonesian police had found Australian officials paid people smugglers to return a <b>boat</b> that was headed for New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the time, Mr Abbott refused to comment on whether Australia had made the payments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the government had stopped <b>asylum</b> seeker boats "by hook or by crook".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>syria : Syria | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | meastz : Middle East | medz : Mediterranean | wasiaz : Western Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151108ebb900004</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020151109ebb900009" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Escaped <b>refugee</b> found dead</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>189 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE body of a <b>refugee</b> being detained at Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre has been found outside of the maximum-security facility.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The discovery comes two days after rumours of an escape circulated among other residents of the centre.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul identified the dead man as Fazel Chegeni, a Kurd who arrived from Iran by <b>boat</b> in 2011 and was granted permanent residency as a <b>refugee</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Rintoul said Mr Chengi had told other detainees he could no longer stand being in detention. “The delay in processing and releasing him is inexcusable,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration has admitted it was made aware of the escape on Saturday morning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the cause of the man’s death is unknown.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“As this matter is now subject to a coronial inquiry the department will not be commenting further at this time,” it said in a statement.Meanwhile, Australia could resettle more Syrian refugees than the 12,000 it’s already committed to. However, ­Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the Government must first build “confidence” and ­demonstrate success in the existing ­program.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Christmas Island <b>asylum</b> escapee’s body discovered</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAIGE TAYLOR   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>421 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An <b>asylum</b>-seeker has died on the Australian territory of Christmas ­Island after escaping from the ­detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration and Border Protection last night confirmed a body of a male detainee had been found outside the wire, two days after rumours began circulating among residents that there had been an escape. The department did not comment on the cause of death.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocate Ian Rintoul said the deceased man was Fazel Chegeni, an Iranian Kurd who ­arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2010.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was initially recognised as a <b>refugee</b> and was due to receive a protection visa a few years ago when he got into a fight at the ­Curtin Immigration Detention Centre and was convicted for his part in the violence. He was subsequently moved to immigration detention in Darwin, then back to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Like so many others, Fazel was suffering the effects of long-term ­arbitrary detention. He had told other detainees he could no longer stand being in detention and just wanted ‘to go outside’,” Mr Rintoul said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian has been told the high boundary fence Mr Chegeni is thought to have climbed was not electrified at the time. There was speculation he took his life but others wondered whether he fell from the fence and died from injuries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration and Border Protection said last night: “On Saturday, the department was advised of the escape of an illegal maritime arrival from Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre by service provider staff. The matter was referred to the <span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span>, who commenced a search and discovered a deceased person today (Sunday). (The centre) remains calm and support ser­vices are available to all detainees and staff.” Riots, protests and escapes have been a recurring feature of the immigration detention centre built by the Howard government to house <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b>. The composition of detainees at the centre has altered markedly in the past 11 months to include convicted criminals awaiting deportation.Christmas Island Shire President Gordon Thomson said he had asked authorities to confirm rumours someone was missing from the centre and was now dead, but the Department of Immigration and Border Force did not tell him anything. He said without official information, residents were left to speculate and worry. When a local woman shared on a Christmas Island Facebook page that an intruder was in her bedroom the previous night, residents linked the incident to the rumoured escapee.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Island detainee found dead</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>127 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE body of a detainee from the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre has been found outside the rear boundary of the maximum-­security facility on the Australian territory.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Immigration and Border Protection confirmed the death of the man last night.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to The Australian the dead man is believed by <b>refugee</b> advocates to be an ­Iranian Kurd who arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2011.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocate Ian Rintoul said the deceased was Fazel Chegeni, who had earlier been recognised as a <b>refugee</b> and was due to receive a protection visa a few years ago when he got into a fight at a ­detention centre.Mr Chegeni is thought to have climbed a high boundary fence to escape the detention centre.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Alleged Australian payments to people smugglers will not be evidence in trial</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>188 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than $US30,000 ($42,000) allegedly paid to people smugglers by Australian officials to return their <b>boat</b> to Indonesia will not be presented as evidence in the men's trial. An Indonesian police probe in June found six crew members had been paid between $US5000 and $US6000 to turn back 65 <b>asylum</b> seekers headed for New Zealand. The prosecution had wanted to present "alleged bribery money from the Australian government" in court as further evidence of people smuggling, but prosecutor Alexander Sele said the police had insisted the crew had not committed a crime when they accepted payments from Australian officials. Last week an <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report said all available evidence pointed to the officials having committed a transnational crime by, in effect, directing a people smuggling operation in May this year, paying a <b>boat</b> crew and then instructing them where in Indonesia to land. The six men on trial in Indonesia face sentences of five to 15 years if convicted.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>THE DARK TRUTH ABOUT NAURU</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MAT TINKLER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>825 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two things struck me as we broke the clouds and descen-ded to Nauru: the island’s remoteness and that the airstrip occupies a quarter of the ­nation’s circumference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was the stifling humidity, and the phosphate dust that sticks to your tongue like an antacid tablet. That was February 2014, and as I reflect on <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span>’s two years of support of the most vulnerable children and adults in detention, there’s a flood of emotion.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s a sense of pride and defiance, drawn from the incredible resilience of those in our care. But also from our inspiring colleagues who’ve lived the peaks and troughs working in an extremely challenging environment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Save the Children</span> staff on Nauru educated, counselled, protected and just plain cared. They brought a glimmer of hope by standing up for the rights of <b>asylum</b> seekers — children and adults.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From a basketball ring in “RPC-3” or an extra pair of shoes, to a family concert or an AFL demonstration day. They cared for children who’d been assaulted, atten-ded police interviews to ensure children’s rights were ­respected and worked relentlessly to put in place a range of protective policies and measures to better shield children from violence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They picked up the pieces when children stitched their lips in protest at being denied an Australian visa. Then they were attacked by their government for doing their jobs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Remember, it was our child protection, welfare and education staff who were ­accused of fabricating claims of abuse and “coaching self-harm” on Nauru. These claims, now completely disproved by the government’s own Moss Review, were abhorrent to our values: protecting the well-being of children and their families on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But alongside the outrage, there’s also a sense of achievement — for the gains we’ve made in establishing a school inside the detention centre to rival any in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or the progress we’ve seen in adults, some of whom a few weeks ago completed their English language exams after studying their hearts out in our adult education program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The overarching feeling though, which I know will linger long beyond the end of <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span>’s contract on Nauru, is that I’ve witnessed a stain on history.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The unpalatable truth is that the <b>asylum</b> seeker and <b>refugee</b> population on Nauru represents the terrible human consequences of Australia’s immigration policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These consequences have arisen because of (or at least been exacerbated by) a policy that intends to deter refugees travelling by <b>boat</b> to Australia at any cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one wants to see <b>asylum</b> seekers dying at sea. But to insist the only way to prevent such deaths is to adopt Australia’s current, harsh ­immigration policy is false.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even worse is the lack of transparency and Orwellian- double-speak from our government that clouds the public’s view of what is being done in our name to some of the world’s most vulnerable people — <b>asylum</b> seekers fleeing violence in places such as Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am therefore torn between feeling immense pride at what my colleagues have achieved on Nauru as well as feeling deeply troubled our government has caused lasting harm to those children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For their part, the defensiveness of the Nauruan government is somewhat under-standable. Their country is judged on a daily basis through the lens of an Australian media that ­expects better, but whose real target is the Australian government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru is caught in the crossfire defending its way of life — their “normal” — to an audience who may not fully understand the reality of life in a developing nation, nor their cultural perspective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, there’s no ­excuse for failing to prosecute child abuse. It should not have taken almost two years to process <b>refugee</b> claims, or open the detention centres to allow freedom of movement. Our government has no ­excuse either. And that’s why transparency and accountability are so important on Nauru, and must form part of this sorry chapter’s future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians should not close their eyes to acts done in their name. And neither should it be incumbent on not-for-profits or individual aid workers to blow the ­whistle on acts of abuse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because these acts are being done in Australia’s name, and with more than a billion taxpayer dollars, it’s in the public interest to have ­independent and transparent oversight of our offshore processing centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Importantly, more transparency would also shine a light on the other human consequences of “stopping the boats”, and ensure the public’s assessment of this slogan’s human end game is viscerally comprehended.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians might then know whether it’s all been worth it. Or whether, perhaps, resettling these vanquished few elsewhere would have been a better thing to do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mat Tinkler is director of public affairs and policy for <span class="companylink">Save the Children</span> Australia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘Parents bury children before moving on’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Shaya Laughlin Shaya.Laughlin@news.com.au   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>387 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EUROPE’S <b>refugee</b> crisis stares Gold Coast nurse Helen Zahos in the face every day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coombabah woman is on the Greek island of ­Lesbos that is bearing the brunt of the exodus of desperate people, mainly Syrians, fleeing their war-torn homelands.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 6000 have arrived in the past few weeks, many walking 65km to the other side of the island from where they landed, to register.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But many do not make it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Last night, one <b>boat</b> packed with 300 crumbled in rough seas, then another <b>boat</b> rammed into it,” Ms Zahos said earlier this week. “Over 100 people were lost at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Children were pronounced dead on arrival and volunteer doctors resuscitated as many as they could with what means they had.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was such a cold night that even as we waited for the coast guard to bring more people in, our hopes for survivors had faded.” Ms Zahos said distraught mothers searched through the crowds of people in the hope of finding their babies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Locals scrambled to find dry clothes and babies found with no parents were changed and cared for by local Greek grandmothers until authorities could take care of them,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The local church was turned into a makeshift ­clinic. The local priest kept coming in and out of the church carrying blankets and dry clothes, his wife was getting people cups of tea and comforting mothers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s really bad.” Ms Zahos arrived on the island a month ago and is halfway through her volunteer mission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Things are really bad here,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The local cemetery is overflowing and volunteers attend funerals to support grief-stricken family members who have no one to support them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Parents bury their children before moving on.” It’s not the first time Ms Zahos has volunteered overseas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year in Thessaloniki, volunteering for Medicines du Monde, she helped pensioners left homeless and unable to buy their medication, and mothers with no money for baby formula or proper food, due to the Greek government’s strict austerity measures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Greek people are dealing with a crisis,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The influx of <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees has deepened the humanitarian crisis.”DUTTON VISITS THE FRONT LINE OF THE <b>REFUGEE</b> CRISIS: P19</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Norway to adopt Abbott’s strategy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Miles Godfrey   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>233 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SCANDINAVIAN countries are adopting Australian-style advertising and social media campaigns to try to reduce the number of refugees crossing their borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Norway became the latest Scandinavian nation to try to deter refugees, with its Directorate of Immigration using <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> and <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> this week to warn Afghans attempting to cross Norway’s border with Russia they face forced repatriation to Kabul.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Foreign Ministry State Secretary Joran Kallmyr, who is part of the anti-immigration Progress Party, said Norway’s government would also launch newspaper ­advertisements in Russia and elsewhere. “The aim is to get the number down,” he said. “Many are coming and many of them are not from Syria.’’ Successive Australian governments have run tough advertising campaigns warning <b>asylum</b> seekers attempting to arrive by <b>boat</b> that they face offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Denmark has used advertising campaigns published in Lebanese newspapers to warn prospective <b>asylum</b> seekers of Denmark’s recent cuts to benefits payments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An anti-immigration party in Sweden has ­announced plans to launch similar adverts warning <b>asylum</b> seekers Sweden is not a “utopia” for refugees.Scandinavian nations have historically welcomed large numbers of refugees but, as in other locations, the numbers have increased as violence continues in the Middle East. UN data shows Norway is home to around 50,000 refugees, while around 20,000 live in Denmark and 145,000 in Sweden.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Jakarta stopover added to Turnbull’s trip</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>547 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A surprise visit to Jakarta has been added to Malcolm Turnbull’s first major overseas trip as Prime Minister, setting up a discussion on border protection policy amid continuing complaints from Indonesia over Australian decisions to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister’s Office last night confirmed that Mr Turnbull would fly to Jakarta next week on the first step of his visit to Turkey, The Philippines and Malaysia to attend a series of summits with world leaders.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In another addition to the program, Mr Turnbull will head to Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to build on ties already enhanced by the Prime Minister’s wife, Lucy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull will visit Jakarta on November 12, which will require him to skip federal parliament on Thursday of next week on the first day of the 10-day trip.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While the Prime Minister’s Office last night emphasised the chance to focus on trade and economic ties, the formal meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo will come at a time of continuing friction over <b>boat</b> turnbacks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of Mr Widodo’s political allies in the Indonesian parliament, Charles Honoris, called in recent days for a “strong protest” against Australia over claims Australian officials paid cash to ­people-smugglers to turn their boats around.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull has stood by the Coalition’s border protection policy in the face of the Indonesian concerns and an accusation from <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> that the payments were a “transnational crime” that put lives at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His visit to Berlin comes after months of increasing co-operation, including formation of an Australia-Germany Advisory Group with members including Ms Turnbull and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann, who was raised in a German-speaking region of Bel­gium. Ms Turnbull and Senator Cormann are both expected to ­attend the Berlin talks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister previously met Ms Merkel in his role as communications minister when she visited the National Information Communications Technology Australia centre in Sydney last year at the G20 summit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After Berlin, Mr Turnbull will attend the G20 summit in Turkey, where he is expected to meet US President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, among others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The next stops of the itinerary are the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Manila on November 18-19 and the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The challenge is to create the right environment for innovation, trade and investment to grow and flourish. This is essential to lifting the living standards of people all over the world, as it is here in Australia,” the Prime Minister’s Office said last night in a statement. “The Prime Minister looks forward to discussing with world leaders how we can work together to achieve our shared vision for a prosperous, open, innovative and energetic region and world.” Mr Turnbull will return for parliament on November 23 but will depart several days later for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta, and his first meeting in his new role with British Prime Minister David Cameron. The Australian understands Mr Turnbull is highly like to attend the <span class="companylink">UN</span> talks on climate change in Paris as part of that trip.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PNG can house refugees in a 'safe environment'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tom Arup   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>446 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Papua New Guinea can house refugees in a "safe environment", the country's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has declared, as his government prepares to resettle the first people out of the troubled Manus Island detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Speaking after a meeting with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten in Port Moresby, Mr O'Neill said he expected the first <b>refugee</b> resettlements to occur in PNG well within the year after his cabinet approved a plan which will soon be tabled in the PNG parliament.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is more than two years since Australia first signed a deal with PNG to take <b>asylum</b> seekers bound for Down Under by <b>boat</b> without a visa, denying them access to Australian shores even if they have a genuine <b>refugee</b> claim.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There has yet to be any resettlement of refugees from the Manus Island detention centre or a nearby transit facility, despite it being understood that about 260 people have so far been deemed genuine refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time human rights and development groups have been very critical of the conditions on Manus Island, where one man died in a riot and there are reports of sexual abuse, depression and anxiety problems among those detained.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr O'Neill defended the program, saying while it had not pleased non-government organisations it had worked and "stopped the boats".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Papua New Guinea was the country that stopped the boats that were coming through because of the solution that we offered to Australia," Mr O'Neill told Australian reporters. "And It has worked. We know it has not been pleasing to some of the non-government organisations in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"But under the circumstances it is better than having people dying at sea. And we are able to house them in a safe environment, where they have clean water and better accommodation."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier, Labor frontbenchers had backed news of the resettlements after meeting senior political figures in Port Moresby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Sunday, Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said the Turnbull government had to engage with the PNG government to ensure the resettlements did occur. Asked whether he thought refugees could have a successful life in Papua New Guinea - a country with significant security issues and a collapsing budget revenue - Mr Marles said: "We have always thought, with the appropriate support of the Australian government, there was the capacity to resettle people in PNG."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten, Mr Marles and deputy Opposition leader Tanya Plibersek were in PNG as part of a four-day tour of Pacific nations, which is mainly focused on highlighting the impact of climate change on the region.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Border fears reach peak farce</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tim Dick. Tim Dick is a Sydney lawyer.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>746 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If an obscure and impoverished survivor of the Soviet Union is seriously on a list of possible places in which to dump those who sought Australia's help, our perverse obsession with border protection has reached peak farce.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kyrgyzstan is the land-locked country so roundly criticised for its human rights abuses that its election last week to the United Nation's Human Rights Council further damages its credibility, if that's possible given Russia and Saudi Arabia are members.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a place about which the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade tells Australians: "Exercise a high degree of caution... because of the potential for civil unrest, the threat of terrorism and high levels of crime".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a place the CIA says faces "endemic corruption, poor inter-ethnic relations, and terrorism". .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a country with a relationship so close to Australia that neither country has an embassy in the other and last financial year, Australia sold it just $2.3 million of merchandise, mainly machines and butter, and bought just $262,000, mainly essential oils. We sold more stuff to Rwanda.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That may soon change, according to a report in The Weekend Australian, as it is the only country identified as "a potential solution for <b>refugee</b> resettlement".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Other former Soviet bloc countries are also understood to have been selected, along with some in Africa and South America, but no deals have yet been struck," it said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government neither confirmed nor denied the report, but given the sorry history of Manus Island, Nauru and Cambodia, we cannot assume it is not a lunatic thought-bubble.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Future agreements with dubious countries in central Asia, Africa and South America raise the prospect of Australia turning its nascent regional export industry - that of genuine refugees - into a global one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our aim: to force those we refuse to help to all continents but our own. We will send them to lands familiar to them by their danger, with poverty too. And we'll pay; $55 million went to Cambodia for taking four refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Exporting problems is now the Australian way. We push away anyone scared enough to flee here by <b>boat</b>. We seem to have paid people smugglers to take some back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We applaud ourselves for the drop in drownings of those seeking <b>asylum</b>, and ignore the psychological damage we do to men, women and 205 children detained for committing no crime, including 1565 who languish in two hell-holes in subservient troubled states.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We get rid of "permanent" residents who do commit crime or otherwise fail the character test, no matter how long they have lived here, and without care as to why the receiving country should have to shoulder the burden of rehabilitating those who turned to crime in Australia. The Sunday Telegraph had a reminder from Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, who continues to provide hope to those who wish to rise well above their ability. According to one story, 33 paedophiles have been deported; the next said he's trying to do the same to bikies before they become citizens (difficult, you'd think, given the good character requirement).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Good luck to the countries trying to keep their children safe from sex offenders without the benefit of court-imposed supervision. No worry that the president of the Rebels, Alex Vella, lived in Australia for 47 years - Malta gets that Australian-made prize to deal with.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even when we evict Tony Abbott from the PM's office, foreigners have to suffer. In last week's audition to be the hardest conservative of them all, he harangued European leaders into being harsher to "prevent a tide of humanity surging through Europe and quite possibly changing it forever".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Changing it, how? If Abbott meant minarets in every city and a smaller proportion of white faces, that ship has long sailed, there and here. And if change is to be avoided, it comes to Australia by air and with visas issued by the government Abbott used to lead: there were 190,000 places in our migrant intake last financial year and just 13,750 humanitarian spots.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We could be a diversity example. Some problems, yes; change to be feared, no. Instead, we are leading in degrading the post-war <b>refugee</b> system, and in having someone else deal with our problems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tim Dick is a Sydney lawyer.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Speaking from the heart for refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»TONY MOORE  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>687 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Queensland</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Afghan <b>refugee</b>, now doctor HomaForotan is just one Brisbane example of a modern day Australian <b>refugee</b> success story.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And as she said, ‘‘I am just one of a million success stories in Australia today.’’ Dr Homa Forotan went to the Milpera Migrant School at Graceville—an unheralded jewel in Brisbane’s migrant settlement pathway—then to Yeronga State High School where she received an OP1 to allow her to eventually study medicine at <span class="companylink">University of Queensland</span>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘Milpera nurtured me,’’ she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘Milpera built that self-confidence in me and believed in me.’’ As a young girl HomaForotan fled Afghanistan with her parents to Pakistan when her father’s outspoken opinions made him a target of Afghanistan’s then government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now a junior physician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital studying cardiac surgery, she spoke passionately in front of an estimated 2000people at Saturday’s Walk Together march in Brisbane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘I think this is only possible in a land like Australia where—within a few seconds of looking around—you see people from different countries,’’ she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘And you learn from their countries, you learn from their cultures, you learn from their values and you learn from their language.’’ As she told how her family fled from the central provinces of Afghanistan—to live as refugees in Pakistan—the thousands on the grass in front of Brisbane’s Supreme Court complex in George Street hushed and listened.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘My father had to leave the country due to his political views and cultural views and as a highly educated person—he was seen to be a threat to the regime of the time,’’ she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her father in 1999 eventually decided on Australia because it gave refugees permanent visas within six months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘But when he arrived here John Howard had just changed the law and he had to wait for five years before he could sponsor us to let us live together as a family in Brisbane,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her younger sister did not recognise her father when he eventually returned to Pakistan—where the rest of the <b>refugee</b> family were waiting—for a long time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘It was very hard for them to connect and it gives you a sense of what it takes to leave their home, quite aside from putting their safety in the hands of someone who promises to take them across the ocean in a leaking <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘It costs them their personal relationships with their children. It can cost them their lives sometimes.’’ The family arrived in Brisbane in 2005 to find their lives transformed by <b>refugee</b> groups who had prepared for them to arrive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘They had never met us before, but they welcomed us and they took us home and they had cooked for us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘It just felt amazing. I had never seen something like that. I had always lived as a <b>refugee</b> in Pakistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘That was just not our experience outside our home at all.’’ Dr Forotan said that encouragement in Brisbane changed her life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘It was that support and that love from people that allowed us to believe in ourselves and to start from scratch basically.’’ Earlier State Development Minister Anthony Lynham—who as a surgeon had previously operated on refugees from Manus Island—received loud applause when he repeated a promise from <span class="companylink">Queensland Premier</span> Annastacia Palaszczuk last week to accept 3500 refugees from Syria. ‘‘This is more than double the normal quota of refugees that our state takes,’’ Dr Lynham said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘Queensland really is a multicultural success story,’’ Dr Lynham said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘But it is something we need to keep working on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘We can’t just sit on our laurels.’’ Brisbane organiser Fahim Khondalier, born in Bangladesh, said the walk was not a protest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘We have come together in a very positive way, not in a protest form,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘Today is not a protest, it is a celebration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘‘The main difference that we are trying to make is asking people to choose between a future defined by fear and prejudice, to one that is defined by welcome, compassion and justice.’’</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Does-Tony Abbott think he can be prime minister again?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Adam Gartrell  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>830 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Comment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Negative and extreme. Simplistic and misleading, perhaps even a little delusional. Full of fear and obsessed with external threats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I'm describing Tony Abbott's London speech last week but could just as easily be describing much of his turbulent prime ministership.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's Margaret Thatcher Lecture encapsulated just about everything that was wrong with his leadership and was a reminder " as if we needed one after only six weeks " of why he lost the top job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a perfect illustration, too, of why he'll never get it back, no matter what his few remaining hardcore supporters desperately want to believe. There was no hint in the speech that Abbott was a man reflecting on his failures or looking to change course; rather he appeared to be doubling down on the fearmongering and sloganeering that drove so many Australians away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Thatcher's achievements were primarily economic, Abbott's speech fixated almost entirely on refugees and terrorists. His inability to talk convincingly about the economy, and his propensity for getting distracted by secondary issues, was a key reason for his downfall but the best he could do was pay lip service to free markets and budget repair.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's no surprise Abbott still wants to talk about refugees; stopping the <b>asylum</b> seeker boats was, after all, one of his government's few significant achievements. His border protection policies were messy and controversial but, as even Labor now admits, stunningly effective.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his prescription for Europe " which basically amounted to "just do what I did" " was gobsmackingly facile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The scale and complexity of Europe's migrant crisis completely dwarfs anything Australia has ever faced, even at the peak of the people-smuggling problem under the Gillard government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott couldn't even get his facts right, erroneously claiming that <b>boat</b> people were turning up at a rate of 50,000 a year just before he won office " in fact, it peaked at a little more than 20,000 in 2013. Europe, on the other hand, has been getting similar numbers of people every week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three-word slogans like "stop the boats" and "close the borders" and "establish the camps" may appeal to some European hardliners " the type of people who vote for windbags like Geert Wilders " but it's hardly a constructive contribution to the one of the biggest global challenges of the modern age.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Also on display was Abbott's remarkable gift for cognitive dissonance. One minute he's telling European leaders they have a moral duty to turn away refugees; the next he's expounding on the apocalyptic evils of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> " one of the "baddies" creating those refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Given the sheer scale of the horror unfolding in Syria, Iraq and everywhere <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> [IS] gains a foothold " the beheadings, the crucifixions, the mass executions, the hurling off high buildings, the sexual slavery " and its perverse allure across the globe, it's striking how little has been done to address this problem at its source," Abbott told the Tory audience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Striking too how some leaders find it so hard to summon compassion for the people IS and similar barbarians displace.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But enough about Abbott's speech; let's talk about his future. The speech reminded us he's all still here. The question is why?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What exactly is he up to? Does he intend to stay in Parliament? Or will he soon follow the example of his former treasurer Joe Hockey and quit the place? He's promised us an answer by the end of the year but for the good of the party " not to mention the collective mental health of the entire country " he should make his intentions clear sooner rather than later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps he's just taking a breather on the backbench while he prepares his post-political career, earning a bit of money on the speaker's circuit while he decides what's next.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who could begrudge him a bit of time to get his life sorted out after such a bruising end to decades of public service?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or perhaps he's out for a bit of revenge by making some mischief of Malcolm until he gets a better offer?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He promised us "no wrecking, no undermining and no sniping" but as we all know Abbott doesn't really have a conventional relationship with the truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Or is it possible he shares the delusions of his most committed acolytes that he could "do a Rudd" and one day reclaim the prime ministership? Does he think the public will clamour for his return, as they did with Rudd? Or that his party will forget the broken promises, the captain's calls, the general air of crisis and incompetence that permeated his administration?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's hard to believe he's that misguided.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then again, Abbott's never really had a conventional relationship with that thing we call reality either.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sausages and Abbott are both damaged goods</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Charles Waterstreet   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>886 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The potential for damage by eating processed meats was dramatically displayed this week in two very different contexts. In the middle of Wednesday night, I awoke to the trumpet call of the toilet bowl; I put my hand on the mattress, to swing off the bed and head towards the bathroom. My upper body fell like a rock to the mattress, completely no feeling in my left hand; a damn stroke, or Bell's palsy of the fist, a lifetime, if lucky, of a limp arm hanging like thick rope, hanging like the useless arm of a truckie that falls on the driver's door with the windowpane down. Too many pork sausages, snags, Bryan Brown's chops, camp pie.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bred in Albury where my growing body was formed by processed food from large tins, I was raised on poisoned processed meat: in tins, in salami, in sausage rolls, meat pies and blood sausages, cured ham (cured from what, I ask now). Children in the '50s, '60s and '70s were force-fed processed meats which had been brought here by <b>boat</b> people from Greece, Italy, Lithuania, and Yugoslavia, their dark eyes lighting up as they cut pieces of cabanossi from thick cables of NBN-sized coils. Delicatessens were poisoned wells of carcinogenic proportions. David Jones Food Hall delighted in the selection of processed foods and meats, stacked like voodoo figures or hanging dolls of meat, or lying down in the autopsy freezer under glass, already cut into purchasable pieces.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shaking my hand, it quickly came to life. The numbness disappeared, I had slept on it. The processed meat stroke was averted. Shaking my limp hand to life, I smiled at the image of Barnaby Joyce laughing on TV at the very idea that Harvard-supervised testing could be right when he was off to have some sausages immediately. I recall politicians like him laughing and exhaling cigarette smoke over journalist and vowing to smoke for the rest of their tragically short lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meat kills, which explains why Paleo man no longer exists. The Paleo man and woman all died in the bum. My proctologist Professor Thomas Borody explained before giving me a rather pleasant colonoscopy that an antibiotic resistant parasite was coming in processed pork sausages from America.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Boarding school was processed food central. Physical and biological abuse was served as meat on plates without vegetables at Waverley College. It appears that meat - red, white, or liverish - is poison.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The relentless rise of the vegans and the vegetarians continues, unstoppable as Turnbull. Loser Bill Shorten's face reeks of meat: he is the cat who swallowed the cat, and a cow, and a horse, and a goat, and a sheep.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When we weren't being poisoned by councils with fluoride, then we were poisoned over and again by our mothers and fathers with meat with two veg, if you were lucky. Steak houses rose like the Killing Fields in the '80s and '90s, fed by abattoirs of death. Our meat makers were killing us softly while we were dying in the bum at the hands of the butchers. It was the <b>boat</b> people of the Snowy Mountains Scheme with their harmless German sausages, long skinny meat hoses of poisoned meat, cabanossi and parasites and cancer-causing proteins hidden in boogie board covers. Laughing, we returned from WWII thinking we had won when the invasion of processed meats lay ahead, borne in the hands of refugees as they groomed Australians to throw away our traditions, and grub down on paper plates of addictive Cabanossi at parties. The term bully beef needs no explanation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second significant example of clearly damaged goods was the bottler Tony Abbott served up over dinner, set to the tune of knife and fork on plate at the annual Margaret Thatcher Centre Gala and Banquet in London. To be fair he looked a million bucks, but once the first and main courses were over and you could actually hear him, it was clear he was flying kites in different directions. Abbott praised optimism where "good people are prepared to 'have a go' as we say in Australia". That is unless you are a <b>refugee</b>, when "having a go" and working hard are no excuse to leave <b>refugee</b> camps and seek a better life across a border. Abbott defines economic refugees as those malcontents not willing to stay in cramped, putrid camps after fleeing death, but who want to go to Germany, Austria, and other parts of Europe where they are not real refugees but economic refugees, craving money and processed meats like everyone else.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott terrified Catholics by begging them to stop treating thy neighbour like thy self, but to exercise tough love, and temper mercy with a dash of justice and kick them all out and into camps. "Western countries need the self-confidence to stand up for ourselves and for the universal decencies of mankind lest the world become a much worse place."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Abbott's world-leadership there would be a giant Manus Island where those self-seeking, ambitious economic refugees (nee real refugees) can be housed and fed processed meats. They are after all, processed in camps built for those bold enough to dare progress.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Marching to beat of a united drum</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>»DAMIEN MURPHY   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>368 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sun Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SHD</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Sydney Muslim leader has spoken out strongly against the treatment of refugees as thousands of Australians walked around the nation to support refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ahmad Malas, of the Lebanese Muslim Association, told a Sydney crowd of about 600 that the political and public attitudes to Islam made it increasingly difficult for Australian Muslims and others to feel welcome.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We have had enough of hearing divisive language, so no more politics of fear, no more Team Australia, no more racist talk and no more shifting the blame to any community and holding it to account for the actions of the few," he told a gathering in Prince Alfred Park, Surry Hills.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Najeeba Wazefadost was smuggled out of Afghanistan when she was 12 and came to Australia on an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> in 2000. She graduated as a medical doctor 10 years later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Holding her arms out wide she told the crowd: "I am the living proof of the benefits of giving refugees a voice and a symbol of hope."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The crowd started cheering as she recalled being locked up on arrival "in a place the Australian government calls detention centres. Today I have a new terminology for this, we should call it a prison. We were locked like criminals for having done no crime. Our only crime was we wanted to seek protection."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal MPs Michelle Rowland (Labor, Greenway) and Craig Laundy (Liberal, Reid) addressed the gathering while federal colleague Jason Clare (Labor, Blaxland) and the state Labor MP for Lakemba, Jihad Dib, watched.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The crowd had walked along Cleveland Street from Victoria Park chanting "Say it loud, say it clear. Refugees are welcome here".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among the walkers were banners for the Uniting Church, the Socialist Alliance, Grandmothers Against Detention for <b>Refugee</b> Children, and the Land Rights flag.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were taking part in Walk Together, to celebrate diversity and respect for people of different faiths and backgrounds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Organisers said the walk, part of a National Day of Unity, was among 25 in cities and towns across Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fourteen mosques across Australia opened their doors to the wider community as part of National Mosque Open Day.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Libs eye Kyrgyzstan <b>refugee</b> plan</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Adam Gartrell Federal Politics   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>477 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sunday Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SAGE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Kyrgyzstan they call it "ala kachuu". Loosely translated it means: grab a woman and run away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's an ancient form of bride kidnapping said to have its roots in nomadic custom. It was outlawed under Soviet rule but it's back in a big way: men drive around looking for women to kidnap and force into marriage and the authorities don't do much to stop it.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sometimes it's consensual - an elaborate ritual - but usually not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It can involve rape and other forms of violence. Local civil society groups say thousands of women are forced into sexual and domestic servitude this way every year and the problem's only getting worse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, <span class="companylink">Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade</span> warns travellers about it in its Kyrgyzstan travel advice. "Women travelling alone and after dark should take extra care for their own security as kidnapping local women for marriage is an ongoing occurrence in the Kyrgyz Republic, and foreigners could mistakenly fall victim to such kidnappings," it says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also warns about the threat of violent crime, gangs, robbery, terrorism, militants, civil unrest, treacherous roads, endemic diseases, bad hospitals, strict laws, police harassment, earthquakes and avalanches.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And if that's not enough, <span class="companylink">Human Rights Watch</span> also warns of torture, widespread judicial corruption, attacks on minorities such as gay and lesbian people, entrenched racism and the terrible treatment of refugees. The country's capital, Bishkek, lies along heroin smuggling routes from Afghanistan into Russia and Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nonetheless, Kyrgyzstan is reportedly the latest place to which the Turnbull government is considering sending refugees - particularly Hazara Afghans - currently languishing in Australian detention facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government is under pressure to find countries that will agree to resettle the 1500 <b>asylum</b> seekers sent offshore after coming to Australia by <b>boat</b>. The Immigration Minister's office has declined to confirm or deny the Kyrgyzstan claims, only referring <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> to his October 9 statement that the government is in talks with a "number" of other countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The search comes as a result of the failure of the government's so-called Cambodian solution, which saw just four people resettled in the south-east Asian nation despite costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finance Minister Mathias Cormann was tight-lipped when pressed about the reports during a television appearance on Saturday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm not going to speculate about an unconfirmed story," he said. "We are having conversations with other countries to support our offshore processing arrangements and when we're in a position to make relevant announcements, no doubt the minister for immigration will do so."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the Cambodian deal was a "failed experiment" and the government should remove the "blanket of secrecy" about its future plans.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>385 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1 November 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A006</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN BRIEF</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eggs follow cop quiz Media in Adelaide have been pelted with eggs by the partner of a woman questioned by police investigating the murders of missing mum Karlie Pearce- Stevenson and her two-year-old daughter. Wheelchair-bound Hazel Passmore attended Adelaide police station on Friday with her lawyer and partner after it was discovered she had photos of murdered toddler Khandalyce on her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page. The 33-year-old was questioned for several hours, but no charges were laid. Ms Passmore is the former girlfriend of Daniel Holdom, 41, the man charged this week with murdering Ms Pearce-Stevenson. Ms Passmore's new partner told media waiting outside her Davoren Park home on Saturday to "f--- off" while throwing eggs and other objects. "I had nothing to do with it, so f--- off," he said. Pro-<b>refugee</b> rally Past generations of Australians welcomed refugees with open arms and the nation is richer for it, a pro-<b>asylum</b> seeker rally in Melbourne has heard. Several hundred people braved the rain for the Walk Together march through the city's CBD and, notably, past the Greek and Little Chinatown food districts. "We didn't always keep people in legal limbo for many years after fleeing war and fleeing death," federal Greens MP Adam Bandt told the crowd gathered at Federation Square. "When we treat <b>boat</b> people like people, we are all better off." 'Unfair' deal threat Outspoken senator Jacqui Lambie wants the China free trade deal killed off because she believes Australian soldiers are under threat. Senator Lambie says the "dangerous" and "unfair" agreement should be scuttled after warnings from a senior Chinese military officer against Australia's involvement in the South China Sea. "We should delay signing any deal with China until a guarantee is given that our sailors will be safe while they are acting peacefully in international waters," she said. Young voter debate Labor leader Bill Shorten wants to give teenagers a super sweet 16 birthday gift: the right to vote, but the federal government has dismissed his proposal as a gimmick. Mr Shorten says 16- and 17-year olds should be allowed to make decisions on the nation's future given they pay taxes, can join the military, drive and even fly planes.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Ruining it for the refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny Associate editor  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1292 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The support of advocates has done <b>asylum</b>-seekers more harm than good</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Refugee</b> advocates and other green-Left activists will say and do anything to inflame emotions and inject political acrimony into the border protection debate. Their sanctimony eclipses their respect for the facts.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They protest and denounce their government as heartless. They tweet about the racism and selfishness of their fellow Australians. They denounce Nauru and Papua New Guinea in terms that, in other debates, would be deemed patronising if not racist (Radio National commentator Paul ­Bongiorno this week referred to Nauru as a “prison island aka a guano heap”).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five years ago, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young (who is one of the secular saints of this ­brigade) issued a press release about the unfolding tragedy of an <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> crashing against the rocks of Christmas ­Island (48 were killed) and a few hours later tweeted about watching a band at a pub. This is moral slacktivism writ large.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another in this communion is Melbourne lawyer Julian Burnside, whose words summarise the twisted politics and derisory view of others within this group. “Stop the Boats policy causes terrible harm to <b>boat</b> people and Australia’s reputation,” tweeted Burnside, “but harnesses xenophobia for political gain.” It would be difficult to conjure a more superficial view of a serious problem or a more miserable misreading of our national culture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These compassionistas are not harmless. Back in 2008 Labor and the Greens bowed to the humanitarian hubris and abolished Australia’s strong border protection measures. This triggered a people-smuggling revival, leading to 1200 deaths as more than 800 boats and 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers crossed dangerous waters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A similar but greater tragedy has unfolded in Europe this year — more than 700,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers have arrived in the <span class="companylink">EU</span>, mainly via Mediterranean ­crossings, and more than 3000 have died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet even after seeing what unfolded on our shores, the compassionistas cheer them on. When Tony Abbott spoke in London this week about this diabolical ­dilemma — how open borders could lure tens of millions from South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East — the response was hateful.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott talked frankly about how protecting refugees and ­making their homelands safe was the only sustainable solution. He warned that welcoming unlimited numbers of refugees and economic migrants could undermine the very qualities that make ­European nations desirable destinations. This is what serious politicians need to do — explain hard choices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is so utterly appalling, Tony Abbott,” tweeted human rights lawyer Sarah Joseph. Former Liberal, Democrats and ­<span class="companylink">WikiLeaks</span> party member Greg Barns tweeted about “Abbott’s racist rant”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The greatest chutzpah came from Kevin Rudd’s former press secretary, Lachlan Harris, with “What a very small man.” Never mind that Rudd’s policies, designed to appear generous and worldly, actually delivered misery and death.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By referencing the Christian ethos of “love thy neighbour” ­Abbott opened himself up to a simplistic morality play. The ABC’s Julia Baird suggested this maxim should be applied in an “unlimited” fashion. <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>’s Waleed Aly said Abbott’s approach was the kind reached when “deep down, the actual lives of people in far-off lands barely feature in your moral calculus”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This moral superiority is coming from people who advocate policies that inevitably lead to chaos, criminal smuggling operations and innocent deaths. Taken to its logical extension, the unrestrained compassion urged by such commentators would be the ruin of Europe with the influx of millions of dependent people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it would surrender the countries from which people are fleeing — Syria, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan and others — to barbarous vandals and ­dysfunction. This approach wouldn’t show much love to your neighbours in Hamburg, Milan or Amsterdam, nor would it do much for your neighbours left behind in Aleppo, Tripoli or Kabul.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politicians have to make decisions and implement policies that will protect and enhance the lives of their constituents. When they are successful they can — as Western countries such as ours always do — extend generosity beyond their shores through aid and other support and through generous immigration programs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To hatefully condemn people who deal in these realities as somehow morally inferior is, in fact, an act of prejudiced immorality and hypocrisy. If the compassionistas had their way, tens of thousands more in Australia would be in detention, hundreds more would have died and we could not possibly have agreed to accept 12,000 refugees from Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The slacktivists excel in smugness and in vitriol thrown at their opponents but they have no real arguments or solutions. When it comes to outcomes, all the results come from the actions of those such as Abbott, Scott Morrison, Julie Bishop and Peter Dutton (and let’s give credit to the belated endorsements from the ALP leadership) who are prepared to soak up ­unconscionable abuse to run effective policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week in Nauru, I came face to face with those who pay the human price for strong border protection. An Iranian widow cried as she explained her thwarted hopes for her adult son, while he sat between us translating her torment. There was Syrian father Jafar and his five stranded sons, and many others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We understand boatpeople deliberately tried to buy their way in while others wait forlornly for assigned humanitarian places but we all understand their motivation. None of us could blame anyone from seeking a better life in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But such feelings of empathy have never been in dispute and don’t provide answers. The issue is how to resolve the dilemma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The refugees stuck on Nauru and Manus Island are the price we pay for sending a strong signal to the smugglers and potential customers. It is incredibly tough, but the policy outcome is crucial, fair and, ultimately, compassionate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What those refugees need is permanent resettlement places, somewhere. And the tragic paradox is that the best option effectively has been killed off by the posturing of the compassionistas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Howard’s Pacific Solution was made to look and sound tougher than it actually was because in reality, of the 1153 <b>asylum</b>-seekers resettled from Nauru and Manus Island between 2001 and 2008, about 30 per cent went home, 30 per cent to other countries (mainly New Zealand) and 40 per cent came to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, most of them got to Australia or New Zealand.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Critically, this generous outcome was kept quiet so that it wouldn’t encourage more smuggling. But later, to score political points and justify their ­rejection of offshore processing, opponents put it all up in lights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The truth about the Pacific Solution,” Rudd said in the 2013 election campaign, “is that 70 per cent, thereabouts, of those people sent by Mr Howard to Nauru and elsewhere as part of the Pacific Solution, used it as a weigh station and within a couple of years were in Australia anyway.” This was part of a deliberate campaign to discredit the Pacific Solution. Ideally, Australia would, again, gradually and quietly, resettle most of the refugees in Nauru and Manus Island on our shores. This would be compassionate and cost effective. And if no one made a song and dance about it, Operation Sovereign Borders wouldn’t be compromised. But in the present climate of confected hysteria, this can’t happen; the compassionistas have made it impossible.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finding third country options is the critical task — and it is not proceeding well. So refugees will bide their time in the offshore centres for extended periods.And the slacktivists whose actions have helped create the problem will make wild allegations and complain loudly, apparently ­convinced that if only we were all as compassionate as them, all the problems of the world would ­disappear.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151030ebav0004p</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-GCBULL0020151101ebav0002m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Irate hubby accused of knife attack</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MELANIE PETRINEC   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>205 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN <b>asylum</b>-seeker allegedly knifed his wife in the chest after authorities told them they would be returned to Iran with their three children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man, 42, has been charged with attempted murder but did not appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police will allege paramedics found his wife with a knife sticking from her chest in a Clayfield driveway on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is alleged the man told police that the victim, 32, had inflicted the wound herself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police will allege she regained consciousness in hospital and pointed at her husband.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The woman allegedly told officers the family had recently been notified they were being deported and it created a strain on their relationship. It is believed the family came to Australia on a <b>boat</b> and spent two years in detention before living in the community for one year. One of their three children was born in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is alleged the man took the children, all aged under 12, to a local park and left them there while he stabbed his wife.He has not been required to enter a plea to attempted murder and two charges of leaving a child under 12 unattended.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bipartisan border protection</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>534 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees in detention need to be resettled in third countries</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Compared with the chaos in Europe where hundreds of thousands of <b>asylum</b>-seekers are streaming in, mostly unvetted, Australia’s border protection is strong — all the more so because the Coalition’s tough, effective policies now enjoy bipartisan support. Offshore processing and detention of <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru and Manus Island is central to the regimen. As opposition immigration and border protection spokesman Richard Marles acknowledges today in Inquirer, offshore processinghasdeterred people-smuggling, bringing an end to the tragic loss of life on the journey from Java to Christmas Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s grievous mistakes in government in dismantling the Howard government’s Pacific Solution encouraged more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers to Australia by <b>boat</b>. At least, in opposition, Labor has finally put the national interest first by backing the Coalition’s stern measures, including <b>boat</b> turnbacks. With border protection policy finally settled, what matters now is managing the process, including detention centres, well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles is right when he says the media should be allowed greater access to Nauru. Yet as the hysterical reaction to Chris Kenny’s straightforward, factual news reports from the island showed recently, too many talking heads in the debate, especially on social media, are not interested in facts or balance — they are intent on painting the most dire picture possible of Nauru and of Coalition policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the main challenges facing the Turnbull government is the need to find suitable third countries for about 2000 refugees on Nauru and Manus Island awaiting resettlement. Government figures show that at the end of June, 348 of these people had been in detention for two years or more. They cannot remain there indefinitely. As reported today, negotiations are under way with the central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan, which could be a suitable home for Hazara refugees from Afghanistan, provided concerns over Kyrgyzstan’s record on human rights and the treatment of refugees can be resolved. The efforts to negotiate arrangements with potential host nations need to be stepped up.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However much some might argue that those remaining in detention should be resettled quietly in Australia, it would be almost impossible for the Turnbull government to do so responsibly. Of 1150 <b>asylum</b>-seekers resettled from Nauru and Manus Island as a result of John Howard’s Pacific Solution, about 30 per cent went home, 30 per cent went to other countries (mainly New Zealand) and 40 per cent came to Australia. Unfortunately, however, as Kenny writes in Inquirer, opponents of offshore processing, in their eagerness to demonise the Pacific Solution, politicised that generous outcome. In today’s climate of confected outrage over offshore processing, any similar move would compromise the effectiveness of Operation Sovereign Borders.As Mr Marles acknowledges, it would result in <b>asylum</b>-seeker vessels again setting sail from Java to Australia, and many <b>asylum</b>-seekers dying: “You simply cannot advocate for this decision on the one hand without accepting responsibility for this outcome on the other.’’ It would be in nobody’s interests, least of all refugees tempted to hand their life savings to ruthless people-smugglers, to put the sugar back on the table.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Kyrgyzstan option to resettle refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SARAH MARTIN, EXCLUSIVE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>665 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan is being considered for the resettlement of refugees on Nauru and Manus Island­, as the Turnbull government struggles to find a political solution for more than 1500 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who attempted to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amid growing calls for Malcolm Turnbull to urgently find a solution for those who have been held in detention for as long as two years, The Weekend Australian can reveal Kyrgyzstan is among the countries listed by authorities as a potential solution for <b>refugee</b> resettlement, particularly for Hazara people from ­Afghanistan.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other former Soviet bloc countries are also understood to have been selected, along with some in Africa and South America, but no deals have yet been struck. Kyrgyzstan, the former Soviet republic of predominantly Turkic-speaking Muslims, borders China and is only about 100km from the Afghanistan border, separated by Tajikistan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its people are among the world’s poorest, with GDP per capita of $3400 a year, compared with $46,600 in Australia. In Afghan­istan it is $2000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The scramble for a political ­solution for refugees held in ­detention comes as the Prime Minister maintains the government’s hardline position on not resettling <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Writing in The Weekend Australian today, opposition immig­ration spokesman Richard Marles urges the government to find a “third country” solution for those in long-term detention but holds firm that any softening of the nation’s border­-protection policies would revive the people-smuggling trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Were the policy to end and refugees resettled in Australia then <b>asylum</b>-seeker vessels would again set sail from Java and many <b>asylum</b>-seekers would inevitably die,” he writes. “A third country option for the refugees on Nauru must be found, yet Malcolm Turnbull’s government has dropped the ball.” A proposed $150 million deal with The Philippines to take an unknown number of refugees from Australia recently collapsed. Concern has also been raised about the effectiveness of a deal with Cambodia, which has settled just four people from Nauru in an arrangement costing taxpayers more than $55m.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles, who is a supporter of offshore processing for <b>asylum</b>-seekers and won a battle at the ALP conference to stop the party banning <b>boat</b> turnbacks, said the government appeared to have no long-term plans for the refugees on Nauru. He said permanent resettlement was not an option on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he defended Nauru, saying it had been unfairly demonised by those seeking to discredit offshore processing. Noting that The Australian’s Chris Kenny had reported from Nauru, Mr Marles called for more access for the media, saying “so much of what is said in the <b>asylum</b>-seeker debate is uninformed”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Few of the voices in this debate­ have ever been to Nauru,” he said. “Many have a clear agenda to break the model of offshore processing on Nauru. I disagree with this agenda but I accept it is a significantly held view.” Soon after becoming Prime Minister last month, Mr Turnbull expressed concern about the long-term detention of refugees held on Manus and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Department of Foreign Affairs travel advice for Kyrgyzstan is to exercise a “high degree of caution”, warning of potential civil unrest, the threat of terrorism and high levels of crime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A human rights report from the <span class="companylink">US State Department</span> last year reveals a litany of alleged abuses in the country, including ethnic violence and “failure to protect refugees adequately”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton refused to comment on the Kyrgyzstan option yesterday, as he rejected calls by <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> for a royal commission into whether Australia paid people-smugglers to turn back boats. While reasserting that no <b>boat</b> arrival would be resettled in Australia, Mr Dutton said the government was working to clear detention centres.Earlier this month, Mr Dutton said Australian government offic­ials were having discussions with a number of different countries about resettlement but would not reveal details.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SINCE fleeing to Australia from Vietnam in 1975, Dr Cuong Bui has worked for the community. He was national president of the Vietnamese Community in Australia, served on the Australian <b>Refugee</b> Advisory Council, the Queensland Migrant Settlement Council of <b>Boat</b> People, the Australian Aboriginal Reconciliation Council, and the Multicultural Council.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Continued Page 2</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'The greater damage has been to our moral base.'</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">T ony Abbott has said and done some awfully silly things in his time, but I doubt that he has ever inflicted more damage upon himself than with his self-indulgent claims to have a practical solution to the <b>refugee</b> problems of Europe. He hasn't had one here, and his recipe for Europe would be disastrous. He has hurt people and the physical fabric, but the greater damage has been to our moral base and any reputation we once had for international decency. A decade ago, Abbott made one of the more thoughtful Australian contributions to the discussion about the war on terror. He observed that it was much more a battle for hearts and minds than it was one of guns and territory. If western civilisation was to win a war against fundamentalist jihadism, it had to morally deserve to win it, not least by being better than those waging war against us. But this week he told British Tories that basic Christian values had to be sacrificed in order to save Christian civilisation. Decency and humanity to those fleeing from war and terror ought now be superfluous baggage. "Implicitly or explicitly, the imperative to 'love your neighbour as you love yourself' is at the heart of every Western polity," he said in his Margaret Thatcher lecture. "It expresses itself in laws protecting workers, in strong social security safety nets, and in the readiness to take in refugees. It's what makes us decent and humane countries as well as prosperous ones, but - right now - this wholesome instinct is leading much of Europe into catastrophic error." That error, to Abbott, is letting in, providing shelter, <b>asylum</b> and refuge to the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Most of that flight is to the west, but a tiny proportion dribbles east, towards Australia. His border policies, he made clear, had never been primarily about stopping refugees from drowning or about forcing them into orderly queues somewhere else. They were simply about keeping people out. Indeed Abbott seems to go further than John Howard's desire that "we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come." Saving folk from drowning is at best only a bonus, or perhaps a cover. A shelter, for example, for liberal and moderate politicians, whether of the Liberal or Labor parties, to pretend that our stop-the-boats policies are a regrettable but necessary means of keeping people alive, of saving them from death in the water. A shelter for the "orders are orders" stream in the bureaucracy. Behind this pleasant fiction, kept in place by strict military and very politically helpful censorship of what actually occurs "on water," Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd or Richard Marles, and the bleeding-heart grandstanders of the ALP Left, can excuse their inaction on Australia's moral and legal obligations to the world. It is already being used to shame us abroad. One day the fallout will be such that future Australian policy, perhaps like Germany's today, will be as much guided by guilt at past awfulness, and repudiation of our awful recent politicians, as of strictly objective considerations of the requirements of the moment. By then, some of our present political, military and bureaucratic leaders will be facing very critical examinations by their descendants. The invasion of Europe by <b>asylum</b> seekers is not only by <b>boat</b>, even if thousands are drowning from ill- advised attempts to flee by water. The root cause is war, misgovernment and oppression in the nations from which the people come, but the surge is a consequence of the western interventions designed to stop the oppression, but in fact destined inevitably to make things worse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abbott's <b>refugee</b> speech damages nation's standing</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our interventions have not only increased the area of war, and the number of people directly affected, but have bolstered the size, power and appeal of extreme jihadist groups, and sent millions fleeing for safety, security and refuge. That refuge should not be in the west, Abbott says. For starters, according to him, they cease to be "real" refugees once they arrive in a neighbouring country, such as a Pakistan, a Turkey, a Jordan or a Lebanon. "... In Europe, as with Australia, people claiming <b>asylum</b> - invariably - have crossed not one border but many; and are no longer fleeing in fear but are contracting in hope with people smugglers. "However desperate, almost by definition, they are economic migrants because they had already escaped persecution when they decided to move again. "Our moral obligation is to receive people fleeing for their lives. It's not to provide permanent residency to anyone and everyone who would rather live in a prosperous western country than their own. "That's why the countries of Europe, while absolutely obliged to support the countries neighbouring the Syrian conflict, are more-than-entitled to control their borders against those who are no longer</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">fleeing a conflict but seeking a better life. "This means turning boats around, for people coming by sea. It means denying entry at the border, for people with no legal right to come; and it means establishing camps for people who currently have nowhere to go. "It will require some force; it will require massive logistics and expense; it will gnaw at our consciences - yet it is the only way to prevent a tide of humanity surging through Europe and quite possibly changing it forever. "We are rediscovering the hard way that justice tempered by mercy is an exacting ideal as too much mercy for some necessarily undermines justice for all. "The Australian experience proves that the only way to dissuade people seeking to come from afar is not to let them in. Working with other countries and with international agencies is important but the only way to stop people trying to gain entry is firmly and unambiguously to deny it - out of the moral duty to protect one's own people and to stamp out people smuggling." Abbott is right in saying that government have a duty to protect their own people. That's why we maintain armies to protect us from foreign invasion, police forces to protect us from crime, and judges to protect us from government itself. In the modern age, those duties extend to combating</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">terrorism, here or abroad. But it is stretching it to claim that this duty requires exclusion of whole classes of people or ideas, let alone the brutalisation of our immigration functions, or the incarceration of people who exercise their legal right to seek our help. Likewise, people have worked hard to condition us with the idea that people smuggling is the worst and most vicious crime of all, one that all governments have a duty to oppose. I think I am against ruthless profiteering from human misery (including, based on the records of performance, by some commercial tenderers for Australian concentration camp operations). But I am not sure that I would automatically condemn every person who has assisted another to escape from war or oppression, or to make a desperate bid for security. Indeed I can think of some to whom I would give money. Jews were saved from Nazi oppression by people smugglers, for example. So were Jesus, Mary and Joseph at the time of King Herod. One can take it that most <b>boat</b> people know of the risks of getting into leaky boats; that they do so in spite of the unchristian impulses of an Abbott may say something of their sheer desperation. This time about, thank heavens, there was no cant from Abbott about queue jumping.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And if he was making cute points denying <b>refugee</b> status to anyone whose flight had extended beyond a single border, he was not disputing that most (at the original border at least) were refugees in convention terms. It is common for the hate mongers to imply that a high proportion are frauds, but this was not necessary for Abbott's argument. Most of the flood had been displaced directly by the wars, air raids or conflicts directly sponsored by western forces. Yet Abbott was simultaneously arguing that the intensity of war should be increased. This virtually guarantees that there will be more people to whom help should be refused, at least if they make for Europe or Australia. Western military organisations have done nothing to dispel the naive and silly belief that the conflicts in North Africa, the Middle East and the Hindu Kush can be won in armed engagements between "our" corrupt, brutal, cowardly and incompetent locals and "them." Western interventions, particularly of the type for which Abbott has been such a shill, have not succeeded. Indeed they have completely failed. And they have directly stimulated the rise and the success of the most diabolical jihadist movements, including their local manifestations (and popularity) in western countries, including Australia. There was no more effective recruiting agent for the ISIS than the antics of Tony Abbott, and the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">sequences of security scares and "announcables" he and a compliant police and security establishment provided. Don't we all feel a little more calm and relaxed now that he is not around? Forty years ago, Abbott was strongly committed to Australia's accepting refugees from communist oppression in Indochina. He was (rightly) scathing about the fears of some Labor folk that such people might be primarily composed of rich South Vietnamese war criminals hoarding gold, or, as Whitlam feared, future "Balts" automatically voting for right-wing parties because of their hatred of communism. As it happens, the acceptance of thousands of Indochinese, and, later Chinese and people from the Indian sub-continent has had clear benefits for Australia and for the Australians they came to join. There is no evidence that this country is having greater difficulties in integrating or assimilating people from Africa or people of Muslim extraction. Perhaps the most curious part of the affair involves some wondering just what is the western civilisation we must all be trying to protect from the onslaughts of refugees. Most given to discussing a legacy of a Judeo- Greek-Christian heritage running back thousands of years make at least some acknowledgement of the fact that the various national histories and cultures were much shaped by wave upon wave of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">invasion, flight and war from groups coming from the east, originally with little in the way of links to the old cultures. If ultimately most of these invaders adopted the philosophies and culture of the west, we can too easily omit reference to the history, culture and ideas they themselves put into the mix. Likewise, the mere mention of western civilisation or western values does not automatically cause a genuflection, even at home. Barbarities inside Europe over the past century give us little to boast about; barbarities by European countries in their colonies or targets are nearly worse. European jurisprudence - dare one say even Australian jurisprudence - has not been so pure, even in recent time, that one could comfortably lecture sharia courts on fundamental notions of justice and punishment. European religious conflict, intolerance and discrimination, even in recent times, has hardly provided a base from which to commend the virtues of secularism and law and order. Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what he thought of western civilisation. He said it would be a good idea. He's probably right. This does not mean that there is no history, no culture or ideal worth defending, particularly against barbarians. But it hardly suggests that we begin the task by deciding to junk our moral base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our interventions have not only increased the area of war, and the number of people directly affected, but have bolstered the size, power and appeal of extreme jihadist groups, and sent millions fleeing for safety, security and refuge. That refuge should not be in the west, Abbott says. For starters, according to him, they cease to be "real" refugees once they arrive in a neighbouring country, such as a Pakistan, a Turkey, a Jordan or a Lebanon. "... In Europe, as with Australia, people claiming <b>asylum</b> - invariably - have crossed not one border but many; and are no longer fleeing in fear but are contracting in hope with people smugglers. "However desperate, almost by definition, they are economic migrants because they had already escaped persecution when they decided to move again. "Our moral obligation is to receive people fleeing for their lives. It's not to provide permanent residency to anyone and everyone who would rather live in a prosperous western country than their own. "That's why the countries of Europe, while absolutely obliged to support the countries neighbouring the Syrian conflict, are more-than-entitled to control their borders against those who are no longer</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">fleeing a conflict but seeking a better life. "This means turning boats around, for people coming by sea. It means denying entry at the border, for people with no legal right to come; and it means establishing camps for people who currently have nowhere to go. "It will require some force; it will require massive logistics and expense; it will gnaw at our consciences - yet it is the only way to prevent a tide of humanity surging through Europe and quite possibly changing it forever. "We are rediscovering the hard way that justice tempered by mercy is an exacting ideal as too much mercy for some necessarily undermines justice for all. "The Australian experience proves that the only way to dissuade people seeking to come from afar is not to let them in. Working with other countries and with international agencies is important but the only way to stop people trying to gain entry is firmly and unambiguously to deny it - out of the moral duty to protect one's own people and to stamp out people smuggling." Abbott is right in saying that government have a duty to protect their own people. That's why we maintain armies to protect us from foreign invasion, police forces to protect us from crime, and judges to protect us from government itself. In the modern age, those duties extend to combating</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">terrorism, here or abroad. But it is stretching it to claim that this duty requires exclusion of whole classes of people or ideas, let alone the brutalisation of our immigration functions, or the incarceration of people who exercise their legal right to seek our help. Likewise, people have worked hard to condition us with the idea that people smuggling is the worst and most vicious crime of all, one that all governments have a duty to oppose. I think I am against ruthless profiteering from human misery (including, based on the records of performance, by some commercial tenderers for Australian concentration camp operations). But I am not sure that I would automatically condemn every person who has assisted another to escape from war or oppression, or to make a desperate bid for security. Indeed I can think of some to whom I would give money. Jews were saved from Nazi oppression by people smugglers, for example. So were Jesus, Mary and Joseph at the time of King Herod. One can take it that most <b>boat</b> people know of the risks of getting into leaky boats; that they do so in spite of the unchristian impulses of an Abbott may say something of their sheer desperation. This time about, thank heavens, there was no cant from Abbott about queue jumping.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And if he was making cute points denying <b>refugee</b> status to anyone whose flight had extended beyond a single border, he was not disputing that most (at the original border at least) were refugees in convention terms. It is common for the hate mongers to imply that a high proportion are frauds, but this was not necessary for Abbott's argument. Most of the flood had been displaced directly by the wars, air raids or conflicts directly sponsored by western forces. Yet Abbott was simultaneously arguing that the intensity of war should be increased. This virtually guarantees that there will be more people to whom help should be refused, at least if they make for Europe or Australia. Western military organisations have done nothing to dispel the naive and silly belief that the conflicts in North Africa, the Middle East and the Hindu Kush can be won in armed engagements between "our" corrupt, brutal, cowardly and incompetent locals and "them." Western interventions, particularly of the type for which Abbott has been such a shill, have not succeeded. Indeed they have completely failed. And they have directly stimulated the rise and the success of the most diabolical jihadist movements, including their local manifestations (and popularity) in western countries, including Australia. There was no more effective recruiting agent for the ISIS than the antics of Tony Abbott, and the</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">sequences of security scares and "announcables" he and a compliant police and security establishment provided. Don't we all feel a little more calm and relaxed now that he is not around? Forty years ago, Abbott was strongly committed to Australia's accepting refugees from communist oppression in Indochina. He was (rightly) scathing about the fears of some Labor folk that such people might be primarily composed of rich South Vietnamese war criminals hoarding gold, or, as Whitlam feared, future "Balts" automatically voting for right-wing parties because of their hatred of communism. As it happens, the acceptance of thousands of Indochinese, and, later Chinese and people from the Indian sub-continent has had clear benefits for Australia and for the Australians they came to join. There is no evidence that this country is having greater difficulties in integrating or assimilating people from Africa or people of Muslim extraction. Perhaps the most curious part of the affair involves some wondering just what is the western civilisation we must all be trying to protect from the onslaughts of refugees. Most given to discussing a legacy of a Judeo- Greek-Christian heritage running back thousands of years make at least some acknowledgement of the fact that the various national histories and cultures were much shaped by wave upon wave of</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">invasion, flight and war from groups coming from the east, originally with little in the way of links to the old cultures. If ultimately most of these invaders adopted the philosophies and culture of the west, we can too easily omit reference to the history, culture and ideas they themselves put into the mix. Likewise, the mere mention of western civilisation or western values does not automatically cause a genuflection, even at home. Barbarities inside Europe over the past century give us little to boast about; barbarities by European countries in their colonies or targets are nearly worse. European jurisprudence - dare one say even Australian jurisprudence - has not been so pure, even in recent time, that one could comfortably lecture sharia courts on fundamental notions of justice and punishment. European religious conflict, intolerance and discrimination, even in recent times, has hardly provided a base from which to commend the virtues of secularism and law and order. Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what he thought of western civilisation. He said it would be a good idea. He's probably right. This does not mean that there is no history, no culture or ideal worth defending, particularly against barbarians. But it hardly suggests that we begin the task by deciding to junk our moral base.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conversations with McCartney</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PAUL DU NOYER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HODDER & STOUGHTON, $32.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the kind of book you dip into for five minutes and emerge from an hour later. Du Noyer, a Liverpudlian, has done many interviews with McCartney over the past 35 years, which he has arranged thematically - the result being part biography, part study. Whether it's McCartney's observations of his songs and writing, asides about Zeffirelli offering him the lead in Romeo and Juliet (McCartney briefly went out with Olivia Hussey), his admiration for Magritte, conversations with Bertrand Russell or the enduring, sometimes troubled, creative friendship with John Lennon ("it's tough when you have ... John slagging you off in public, cause he's a tough slagger-offer") McCartney is always interesting. He emerges as a complex, paradoxical character. Du Noyer concludes he came away from the interviews "with the idea that McCartney is a decent guy, who happens to be a genius".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Brain Electric</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MALCOLM GAY</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TEXT, $32.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like a scene from science fiction, Gay, from the Boston Globe, opens this study of frontier neurosurgery with a surgeon going over the operation he will perform that day on a man who has suffered severe epilepsy for 30 years. Just slice into the brain, find the piece of feral brain (the size of a wine cork) that is causing up to a dozen seizures a day, remove it and leave implants. Surgeons around the world are working towards the ultimate goal of giving the impaired or disabled mental control of machines and brain-controlled prostheses by implanting electrodes into the brain. The implications, definitions of humanity among them, are vast - the US Defence Department, citing amputee casualties in war, is already involved. It's neither a specialist text nor a stroll in the park, but Gay is an excellent clarifier.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More to the Story</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ROSEMARY SAYER</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MARGARET RIVER PRESS, $27.95</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This collection of <b>refugee</b> tales goes behind the headlines and policy debates to put a human face to the issue that has divided the country for years. Among those Sayer interviewed is Paul, one of many Karen people from Burma who fled the country because pro-democracy protesters were being shot by government forces, Paul narrowly missing a massacre. And John, who left Afghanistan because the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span> were cleansing the country of the Hazara people and he would have been shot or dismembered had he not taken a leaky <b>boat</b> to Australia, where he is now a community leader. One of his sons plays for Cambridge United in the English second-division. There are many stories of tragedy and triumph here that the country might hear one day above the sloganising.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Mother's Story</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ROSIE BATTY (WITH BRYCE CORBETT)</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HARPERCOLLINS, $32.99</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cricket training was finishing at the Tyabb oval, there was a glorious summer evening sky as Batty pulled up to collect her son, Luke. He asked her for a few extra minutes in the nets with his father, and what followed - the murder of Luke by his father - shocked the country. This is a tough read, especially Batty's description of events at the oval that evening, how everything slipped into nightmarish slow motion, along with the shouting, the confusion, and hearing the two gunshots, fired by the police, that killed Luke's father. Batty takes the reader back to her English country childhood, the sudden death of her mother when Batty was six, emigration to Australia in her mid-20s and, among other things, a portrait of the deeply disturbed man with whom she had the child. A brave, resolute and heartbreaking tale.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ORDINARY PEOPLE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELISSA LAWRENCE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>391 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CHRIS PYE, 49</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLOR, VIRGINIA</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Running a marathon was on my bucket list, so in 2010 I did my first.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I started running more of them and then did my first ultra-marathon [more than 50km]. I progressed to 24-hour marathons in Delhi and Bangalore in India, and last year I ran around a Brisbane CBD block for 24 hours non-stop to raise awareness of the plight of <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My thirst for travel and adventure comes from my [late] parents [Arthur and Margaret]. Both were teachers in a small English town [Cowes, on the Isle of Wight] and when I was 10, they bought a small sailing <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We [with sister Sarah, 51] spent seven years living on the <b>boat</b> and travelling the world - the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean and US east coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At 17, I studied drama in New York and then moved to London where I worked as a theatre actor for five years. I was in a play that toured detention centres in the UK and that set me off to study youth work and community education. In 1998, I moved to Australia and for the past eight years I've worked in relationship counselling. I enjoy music and have a studio at home ... I write songs, play guitar and keyboards and sing. I'm also a keen blogger and write what I call musings on life [Chocolate Cake for the Brain].</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In December, I'm getting married to my partner of eight years [Sophiaan, 41]. We are going to New Zealand ... we didn't want to have to wait for same-sex marriage in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last year I was diagnosed with advanced osteoarthritis in my pelvis and hips. Doctors strongly suggested I stop running but I had already registered for a 24-hour ultra-marathon in Thailand next Saturday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I found a secondhand unicycle and decided I would ride that instead. It took me a couple of weeks not to stack it every 30m and now I ride 15km a day and 50km on weekends. I'm aiming for 200km in this event, and I'm crowdfunding for a charity that helps women and children impacted by slavery and human trafficking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's an amazing feeling when you push yourself beyond where you thought you could go.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bishop goes to work on a wary Jewish lobby</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>863 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>77</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA’s decision to take its relationship with Iran out of the freezer and gently defrost it around the edges is causing some concerns across the political divide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will visit Jewish community members in Melbourne to reassure them of her solid support for Israel (mortal enemies of Iran) and explain that Australia is not seeking to build a relationship with Tehran.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her visit, and a few others with Jewish community leaders this week, are designed to head off Labor’s Michael Danby, whose one-man campaign against any increased Australian dealing with Iran has gained momentum in recent weeks within his own party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It may also reassure some of Bishop’s Liberal colleagues who, in private, are anxious about where Australia might be heading.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April, Bishop visited Tehran, the first Australian foreign minister to do so in 12 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The visit represented a slight thawing of relations with the country previously dubbed by our US allies (under George W. Bush) as part of the “axis of evil’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The main reason for the visit was to try for a deal on the 8000 Iranians who came to Australia by <b>boat</b> seeking <b>asylum</b> and are now detained in the community and in the Manus Island detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The majority are unlikely to be genuine refugees but Iran has said it will not allow them back. Danby, a Jewish MP whose Melbourne Ports seat has the highest Jewish population in Australia, had been railing against Australia’s dealings with Iran and warning that Tehran wants to open consulates in Melbourne and Sydney to help process the <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Iran already has an embassy in Australia, but allowing Iran to extend this diplomatic network — and thereby increase the number of people entitled to diplomatic immunity — is inviting trouble,’’ he told the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He wouldn’t elaborate but it’s not hard to imagine he’s suggesting Australian intelligence officials might be able to keep tabs on what’s happening in the decades-old Iranian embassy in Canberra — but might be a bit stretched to keep across the activities of two more outposts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anyway, it’s all academic at the moment because the Executive Council of Australian Jewry met Bishop this week and issued a press release on this very issue: “The Foreign Minister stated in the clearest possible terms that there has been no shift in policy.’’ The other issue discussed by Bishop in Tehran was the rise of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Iranians hate Islamic State. So does Australia and the West. It’s not quite the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend, but close.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While in Tehran, Bishop asked if the Iranians had any information about Australians fighting in Iraq and Syria and if so, would they pass it on to Australia. Bishop told the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun she did not offer anything in return: “There is no intelligence sharing agreement. It was one way.’’ She says she asked for information because Tehran has an embassy in Syria, which Australia does not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor and Liberal MPs have been watching these developments with an eye to how it might affect their standing with Jewish voters and how that might affect political donations. One Liberal MP said he believed, anecdotally, that it was causing serious concern among Jewish voters. “We have to be very careful. We are supping with the devil,’’ is how he described Australia’s dealings with Tehran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another said Australia had looked “obsequious’’ because Bishop had worn a headscarf to cover her hair while in Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop has been working hard to reassure Jewish voters of the Government’s support. She told the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun: “I am meeting members of the Jewish community for discussions and setting right the misinformation being put about by Michael Danby.” DANBY has been banging away on this particular drum for months, but gained new support from colleagues when Bishop said that she believed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may have to be part of the Syrian solution, at least in the short term. Labor seized on that and Deputy Leader Tanya Plibersek joined Danby in <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> to demand Australia debate its Syria and Iraq strategy. They plan to repeat the move every week <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> sits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor Right in Victoria has always been close to the Jewish community and Danby sees his campaign against Iran as a way of showing support to Israel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Things are a more complicated in NSW. The electorate with the second biggest number of Jewish voters is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s seat of Wentworth. The Jewish seats in Sydney are broadly considered to be Liberal seats, so Labor has turned its attentions to the fast-growing Islamic vote in working-class western Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sydney types have always been a bit suspicious of the influence the Jewish lobby holds in Melbourne. (Former Labor Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s infamously described his Victorian pro-Israel colleagues as the “falafel faction’’.) It’s all proof that there’s nothing diplomatic about the brutal world of international diplomacy.ELLEN WHINNETT IS NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>$190 a head: the price of a more humane immigration policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jessica Irvine - Twitter: Jess_Irvine  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>768 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From beyond his political grave, Tony Abbott reached a grasping hand this week to once again dredge up fear of <b>asylum</b> seekers, using a speech in London to warn of the "peril" of untrammelled migration. We'll lose control of our borders. We'll all lose our jobs. Just think of the welfare bill!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When fear runs free it's important to ask: what's the worst that could happen? What would the economic cost be of a higher humanitarian migration intake?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That is exactly the question a new paper Stop the Boats: Do the ends justify the means? by Gordon Menzies, an associate professor of economics at the University of Technology, Sydney, seeks to answer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Menzies, a former RBA official and Oxford University lecturer, starts by observing that Australia's intake of so called "<b>boat</b> people" has been low compared to our total migration intake.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the first 12 years of the 21st century, Australia's annual intake of migrants averaged about 150,000. The humanitarian component was just a tenth of this, about 15,000. The average intake of "<b>boat</b> people" was about 4000 a year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Looking at the cumulative intake since 2000, within three years we could have created another city the size of Hobart (200,000 people). During the entire 12-year period, Australia added enough migrants to populate another Brisbane (2 million people).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, Australia is being overrun by migrants, but of a different type than those in the headlines: skilled migrants, students and family reunions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By contrast, Menzies notes, the number of <b>boat</b> arrivals during this time (58,000) "would make for a poor crowd at the MCG".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has managed this mass-migration program pretty well. Of course, we're talking mainly here about the "right" sort of migrants, in the popular imagination. They're more likely to be English speaking, more likely to have recognisable skills and more likely to be of working age.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Illegal maritime arrivals, by contrast, are more likely to speak other languages, more likely to be young and therefore not in the workforce yet and they tend to have fewer workforce qualifications. So what if we took more of this group and less of the former?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Menzies runs an experiment. What if, over the first 12 years of this century, we took 10,000 more <b>boat</b> people each year and 10,000 fewer skilled migrants? Today we'd have 120,000 more <b>boat</b> people and 120,000 fewer skilled migrants.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There would undoubtedly be a cost to economic production, Menzies finds. But the cost would be "small and manageable".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, he finds economic output would be $190 lower per person per year if we changed the composition of migration in this way. That is, GDP would be 0.29 per cent smaller per year. Compound this for a generation, over 40 years, it would mean a one-off cost to GDP of 5 per cent - about on par with a commodity price shock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Even if the modelling were mistaken by a factor of two, the impact on the economy is arguably quite manageable. Whatever obstacles stand in the way of a more liberal immigration policy, a crippling economic cost is not one of them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indeed, the modelling likely overstates the cost by taking a pessimistic view of the employability of <b>boat</b> people relative to skilled migrants. Menzies assumes they are half as employable. Also, it excludes the fact that while many arrive too young to work, they will grow to working age.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It also doesn't take into account that refugees traditionally display high levels of entrepreneurship. If we'd stopped the <b>boat</b> that Frank Lowy fled Europe on, one of our largest companies, Westfield, wouldn't exist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, there are other costs not captured here, including increased welfare and housing costs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And yes, these new migrants will compete for the low-skilled jobs of some workers in our outer suburbs. But, as Menzies notes, a more liberal migration policy would avoid several hidden costs, not least the trauma to detention staff forced to administer the "stop the boats" policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is also the detriment to Australia's "social capital", important for volunteering, charitable giving and tax compliance, from such a high-profile violation of human rights by the government. Australia also incurs brand damage by being a country that flagrantly flouts international rules.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have little to fear - and potentially much to gain - from embracing those who've come across the seas.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Children washed up dead</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>182 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AT least seven children died when boats carrying migrants sank off Greece, as rescue workers battled to save more youngsters on the seashore in the latest desperate scenes in Europe’s <b>refugee</b> crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Images from Lesbos, a major entry point for the huge flow of migrants trying to get to Europe, showed doctors ­attempting to revive unconscious children on the island’s shoreline.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three adults also died as four vessels went down on the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey and more than 200 people, many suffering hypothermia, were rescued from a <b>boat</b> sinking off the north coast of the Greek island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Later in the evening, a drowned woman and the bodies of two children were found floating off the Greek island of Agathonisi, a few kilometres from the Turkish coast.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A one-year-old baby remained in a critical condition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Patrol vessels, fishing boats and even locals on power skis joined in efforts to search for more survivors in the water.The sinkings brought to 39 the number of migrants found dead in Greek waters this month.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>QUICK VIEWS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>355 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Already in deep water ‘SHARK funds more than welcome (“Shark school”, Mercury, October 28). I do not agree. $23.9 million! What an insulting waste of money that is so sorely needed by those in the community who are struggling daily to make ends meet. Shark funds are not my priority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alison Morgan New Town</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PM peddles cruel message THE Member for Warringah, the former PM, should be talking to his electorate, instead of strutting the stage speaking at a $400-per-head black-tie dinner in London. Mr Abbott telling a paying audience about his cruel, simplistic approach to solving the world <b>refugee</b> crisis beggars belief.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">M. Ross New Town</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New world order “WE must choose between established economic order and a stable climate” (Peter Boyer, Talking Point, October 27). Some 45,000 years ago Tasmania had an “established economic order”. Several waves of migrants walked over here until about 10,000 years ago. Funny that the “established economic order” failed then to prevent the sea level rising about 60m.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Troy Kingston</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All stock must go AS each day passes, it becomes clearer that Tasmanians have “formed the view” that Glasser and Parker isn’t the only clearance sale going on (“More heat on Groom over asset intentions”, Mercury, October 27). Hurry — absolutely everything must go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stephen Jeffery Sandy Bay</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Media circus WHO needs Monty Python’s Flying Circus when we have the <span class="companylink">Washington Speakers Bureau</span> starring John Howard, Tony Blair, George Dubbya and Tony Abbott as the “world’s greatest minds”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Steve Jones Allens Rivulet</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gun control THE assailant who went on a fatal racist rampage in a Swedish school only managed to kill two people. Why? He only had a sword and a knife because of the strict gun controls in Sweden. How many people would have died if he had two guns. Why can’t the USA see the logic?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Colin Corney Beaumaris</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Good work ONE thing we can be thankful for is Turnbull continuing the no-<b>boat</b> policy that Abbott started. How you turn them back who cares just keep up the good work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony GeevesRosetta</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bishop goes to work on a wary Jewish lobby</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>863 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>77</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIA’s decision to take its relationship with Iran out of the freezer and gently defrost it around the edges is causing some concerns across the political divide.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will visit Jewish community members in Melbourne to reassure them of her solid support for Israel (mortal enemies of Iran) and explain that Australia is not seeking to build a relationship with Tehran.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her visit, and a few others with Jewish community leaders this week, are designed to head off Labor’s Michael Danby, whose one-man campaign against any increased Australian dealing with Iran has gained momentum in recent weeks within his own party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It may also reassure some of Bishop’s Liberal colleagues who, in private, are anxious about where Australia might be heading.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In April, Bishop visited Tehran, the first Australian foreign minister to do so in 12 years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The visit represented a slight thawing of relations with the country previously dubbed by our US allies (under George W. Bush) as part of the “axis of evil’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The main reason for the visit was to try for a deal on the 8000 Iranians who came to Australia by <b>boat</b> seeking <b>asylum</b> and are now detained in the community and in the Manus Island detention centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The majority are unlikely to be genuine refugees but Iran has said it will not allow them back. Danby, a Jewish MP whose Melbourne Ports seat has the highest Jewish population in Australia, had been railing against Australia’s dealings with Iran and warning that Tehran wants to open consulates in Melbourne and Sydney to help process the <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Iran already has an embassy in Australia, but allowing Iran to extend this diplomatic network — and thereby increase the number of people entitled to diplomatic immunity — is inviting trouble,’’ he told the Herald Sun.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He wouldn’t elaborate but it’s not hard to imagine he’s suggesting Australian intelligence officials might be able to keep tabs on what’s happening in the decades-old Iranian embassy in Canberra — but might be a bit stretched to keep across the activities of two more outposts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anyway, it’s all academic at the moment because the Executive Council of Australian Jewry met Bishop this week and issued a press release on this very issue: “The Foreign Minister stated in the clearest possible terms that there has been no shift in policy.’’ The other issue discussed by Bishop in Tehran was the rise of <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> in Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Iranians hate <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>. So does Australia and the West. It’s not quite the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend, but close.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While in Tehran, Bishop asked if the Iranians had any information about Australians fighting in Iraq and Syria and if so, would they pass it on to Australia. Bishop told the Herald Sun she did not offer anything in return: “There is no intelligence sharing agreement. It was one way.’’ She says she asked for information because Tehran has an embassy in Syria, which Australia does not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor and Liberal MPs have been watching these developments with an eye to how it might affect their standing with Jewish voters and how that might affect political donations. One Liberal MP said he believed, anecdotally, that it was causing serious concern among Jewish voters. “We have to be very careful. We are supping with the devil,’’ is how he described Australia’s dealings with Tehran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another said Australia had looked “obsequious’’ because Bishop had worn a headscarf to cover her hair while in Iran.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bishop has been working hard to reassure Jewish voters of the Government’s support. She told the Herald Sun: “I am meeting members of the Jewish community for discussions and setting right the misinformation being put about by Michael Danby.” DANBY has been banging away on this particular drum for months, but gained new support from colleagues when Bishop said that she believed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may have to be part of the Syrian solution, at least in the short term. Labor seized on that and Deputy Leader Tanya Plibersek joined Danby in Parliament to demand Australia debate its Syria and Iraq strategy. They plan to repeat the move every week Parliament sits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor Right in Victoria has always been close to the Jewish community and Danby sees his campaign against Iran as a way of showing support to Israel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Things are a more complicated in NSW. The electorate with the second biggest number of Jewish voters is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s seat of Wentworth. The Jewish seats in Sydney are broadly considered to be Liberal seats, so Labor has turned its attentions to the fast-growing Islamic vote in working-class western Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sydney types have always been a bit suspicious of the influence the Jewish lobby holds in Melbourne. (Former Labor Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s infamously described his Victorian pro-Israel colleagues as the “falafel faction’’.) It’s all proof that there’s nothing diplomatic about the brutal world of international diplomacy.ELLEN WHINNETT IS NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM slams Amnesty accusations</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROSIE LEWIS   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed an <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report accusing the Coalition of committing transnational crimes and paying people-smugglers to turn back <b>asylum</b>-seeker boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, he said, the nation’s defence and border force personnel “take great care to operate within the law”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson appealed for the report’s allegations to receive “proper investigation” and Labor and the Greens urged the government to take action, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop rejected the findings and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declared the government would not be “bullied” by human rights advocacy groups.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report, By Hook or By Crook, is largely based on interviews with 68 <b>asylum</b>-seekers and crew involved in a turnback operation in May under Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> alleges government officials paid people-smugglers to return the <b>asylum</b>-seekers to Indonesia and put lives at risk.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Claiming Australia’s treatment of <b>asylum</b>-seekers was becoming “lawless”, the organisation wants a royal commission into the scandal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It called also for an inquiry into a second possible case in July, when payments allegedly were made to the crew of another <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b>. The Prime Minister refused to comment on the “security matters”, saying the government was “quite satisfied” its agencies were operating within the law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton slammed <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> and labelled the report a “disgrace”, warning that the Coalition would not allow Australia to “return to those crazy days” under Labor when record numbers of <b>asylum</b>-seekers arrived by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Wilson said the “very serious allegations” should be treated with gravity. “I want strong border protection as well but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have an environment where there is proper scrutiny,” he said on Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens urged the government to take formal action and said the Coalition could not just “sweep it under the carpet or attack the messenger”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There has been far too much secrecy in this area ever since the Coalition came to power and evidence of criminal activity on the high seas cannot be ignored,” Greens leader Richard Di Natale said.Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said the report acted as a “test” for Mr Turnbull and the transparency he was willing to give the Australian people on the government’s immigration policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>amnsty : Amnesty International</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020151029ebau0001o</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151029ebau0005m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The Australian girls living in a 'jail'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nicole Hasham   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>626 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKERS - Immigration - Mother's visa cancelled</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Salwa Abas stands out in the busy school drop-off: she is the only child escorted by a guard.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Classmates tease the five-year-old for living in a "jail" and when she returns home, each pocket of her bag is searched.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Salwa and her sister Yasmin, 3, are Australian citizens. But they have been living with their mother behind locked gates at Villawood detention centre for almost a year, after the federal government cancelled their mother's visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In doing so, the government acknowledged the decision was not in the children's best interests. Their mother Zahra, who is pregnant with her third child, has begged Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to intervene.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They were happy Australian kids, why [did the government] do this to them? They don't deserve to be here," she told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> from inside the detention centre. "[My children] are really upset inside and they are asking me, 'What are we doing for Christmas, are we getting out? Why are we here?'."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Abas, originally from Iraq, arrived on a <b>boat</b> from Indonesia in 2009 with other family members. They were taken to Christmas Island and then granted protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her father, known as Captain Emad, arrived in Australia in 2010. He fled two years later after the ABC's Four Corners program alleged he was running a people-smuggling racket from Canberra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The case cast a spotlight on his family, and the Department of Immigration determined Ms Abas, who was 19 when she arrived in Australia, had falsified information on her visa application.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Abas said this week her father was "abusive, controlling and angry" and told the family to lie to immigration officials about their names and background.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In Indonesia, he wanted to break my legs because I wanted to run away from him, and he took a hammer and hit my leg and I got stitches from it," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under the former Labor government, the department said that while Ms Abas had breached her obligations under migration law, her visa would not be cancelled. But in December last year, then-immigration minister Scott Morrison intervened to cancel Ms Abas' visa.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Morrison wrote that she had been living in Malaysia for many years, rather than in Iraq where she claimed to have suffered persecution, and should not have been granted a protection visa. He said there was no evidence she was under duress from her father.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Notwithstanding that the best interests of the dependent children would be served by a decision not to cancel the mother's visa, this is outweighed by the seriousness of the non-compliance," he wrote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Abas was taken into detention in January, and lives in residential-style housing. Her Australian citizen husband suffers medical problems and cannot care for the children, forcing them to live with their mother at Villawood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Abas' husband visits the family in detention and she is 21 weeks pregnant. She is also severely depressed and fears for the future of her unborn baby and daughters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Salwa, once a bubbly child with many friends who loved the film Frozen, is now lonely and suffers nightmares. Yasmin has become unhappy and clingy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Every day [Salwa] says 'I had a really bad day, I hate this school, I hate you, I hate this place', and then she goes in her room and cries. She doesn't want to go out, she doesn't want to eat," Ms Abas said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's like a jail - you have no freedom, no control over your life or your children's life."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton and Immigration refused to answer questions regarding Ms Abas.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Indonesian MP seeks end to <b>boat</b> push-back policy</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield, Karuni Rompies, Amilia Rosa, Jane Lee   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>573 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>30 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKERS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A member of President Joko Widodo's ruling party has called on the Indonesian government to "send a strong protest" after a report found Australian officials paid people smugglers to return to Indonesia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Charles Honoris, a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives, also renewed calls for Australia to abandon its controversial <b>boat</b> push-back policy and said he hoped the Australian government would be more transparent under the new prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Foreign Minister Retno has demanded an explanation on the June incident but got no response," said Mr Honoris, who is a member of Mr Joko's Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The foreign minister must demand it again, especially after the release of the <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report. The Indonesian government must send a strong protest to the Australian government so that it will not re-occur."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report said Australian officials who paid people smugglers to return a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia had committed a transnational crime and put dozens of lives at risk. The report calls for a royal commission into the scandal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Honoris also proposed a joint investigation into the people smuggling payments between Indonesia and Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Now there is a new prime minister in Australia we hope the government will be transparent in this particular case."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian government maintained its defence of Operation Sovereign Borders on Thursday, with Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop rejecting the report.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Australian officials are acting in accordance with Australian domestic law and in accordance with Australia's international obligations."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">General Endang Sunjaya, the police chief of Nusa Tenggara Timur province who oversaw the investigation into the people smuggler payments, said Australian officials put the lives in danger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said Australia had forced Indonesia to process "abundant numbers of illegal immigrants".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">General Endang said Australian officials had paid the captain and crew and then returned the <b>asylum</b> seekers in boats lacking adequate navigational systems and fuel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said Indonesian police had proved the existence of bribes to people smugglers in June. But he while the <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report mentioned possible payments to people smugglers on a second <b>boat</b> in July, Nusa Tenggara Timur police had found no evidence of this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> said in its report that Australian officials had breached the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land Sea and Air. Under the protocol, Indonesia could engage in a range of dispute resolutions, but all rely on Australia's co-operation to go ahead, including the option of suing Australia at the <span class="companylink">International Court of Justice</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Don Rothwell of <span class="companylink">Australian National University</span>'s <span class="companylink">College of Law</span> said Indonesia was unlikely to pursue the range of legal options it had: "[Indonesia has] been in possession of these facts for a very long period of time now, yet it's chosen to deal with the matter by diplomatic means."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sydney University international law professor Ben Saul backed the report's recommendation for a royal commission.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"At least you'd get an independent quasi-judicial scrutiny of what's going on," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Rothwell said a royal commission was "premature", but, given the government had consistently refused to discuss Operation Sovereign Borders, "it is fair to say that even parliamentary inquiries are unable to fully determine the truth of some of these matters".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151029ebau0005k</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151028ebat0004z" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott's <b>refugee</b> battle: Machiavelli v Jesus</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>777 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former prime minister Tony Abbott has evoked both Machiavellian political philosophy - you have to be cruel to be kind - and Biblical teaching - "love your neighbour as you love yourself" - in urging Europe to reject <b>asylum</b> seekers. Failing to stop them through "some force" would be a "catastrophic error", he told conservatives in London.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many will struggle to reconcile Mr Abbott's seemingly contradictory sources: 15th century Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, a political schemer intent on retaining power, and Jesus, a prophet of compassion.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even more will wonder how Mr Abbott can justify inflicting suffering on many thousands of refugees for the sake of deterring people smugglers and some economic migrants drawn to the prosperous West.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are rediscovering the hard way that justice tempered by mercy is an exacting ideal as too much mercy for some necessarily undermines justice for all," Mr Abbott said of the massive population movements across Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His comments echo Machiavelli in The Prince: "A wise prince is not troubled about a reproach for cruelty which keeps his subjects united and loyal because, giving a very few examples of cruelty, he is more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, let evils continue from which result murder or plunder, because the latter commonly harm a whole group, but those executions that come from the prince harm individuals only."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The difficulty in accepting that the Australian approach would work in Europe, however, is that Mr Abbott's argument is built on four highly contestable foundations: one, that people would not flee Syria or northern Africa if there were no people smugglers; two, that <b>asylum</b> seekers should settle in their first country after fleeing to be regarded as refugees, when in fact many of those nations reject them; three, that economic refugees from Syria or Libya are the norm; and four, that some nations - namely, Germany - are saying they will accept all comers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another difficulty is that Mr Abbott's assertion of success in Australia ignores the current situation here. While most Australians accept a tough border policy, calls are growing for a more humane approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald accepts that Mr Abbott's turn back the boats policy and offshore detention regime has stopped many risky <b>boat</b> trips to Australia. Deaths at sea have been avoided. We even accept that some people sought <b>asylum</b> here for purely economic reasons.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cost of Australia's tough stance against people smugglers and economic migrants, however, has been inhumanity to many refugees who deserve our protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott conceded "our moral obligation is to receive people fleeing for their lives". Yet Australia, without the sharp increase in <b>refugee</b> intake the Herald has demanded, is condemning some <b>asylum</b> seekers to danger in conflict-torn homelands, so that others who use official routes might have priority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia, too, has detained desperate arrivals in detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island. These centres are akin to jails; their operations secret and safeguards uncertain. The treatment of detainees is, by most accounts, below par. The contractor, Transfield Services - which is rebranding as Broadspectrum - is accused of losing control of staff and not being properly accountable to the Commonwealth, thereby exposing detainees to harm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The challenge for Mr Abbott's successor, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, is to retain control of Australia's borders as a deterrent, but to do so in a lawful and humane manner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A case before the High Court challenges the constitutional validity of detention arrangements on Nauru, which may also have implications for Manus Island. The Commonwealth seeks to defeat the challenge with the chilling claim that it does not control the facilities or how <b>asylum</b> seekers are treated. Days before the hearing, the legal ground shifted when the government of Nauru announced it would allow the 650 <b>asylum</b> seekers freedom of movement and faster processing. The Human Rights Law Centre said even if those arrangements were valid, they "may be amended or terminated at any time".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Regardless of the looming outcome of that case, most Australians expect the Turnbull government to face up to and redress the failings in the existing policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An independent ombudsman should investigate incidents and oversee conditions in all detention centres. What's more, the government should reconvene the expert panel headed by former Defence Force Chief Angus Houston. Some of his panel's recommendations were not implemented. In the new environment where boats are not arriving, the focus must be on new policies to improve treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers without reducing deterrence, while at the same time striking long term resettlement deals for those on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nedi : Editorials | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151028ebat0004z</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020151028ebat0002i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott's <b>refugee</b> policy is our disgrace</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>644 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's policy of turning back boats carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers is so base in its ideals and so ruthless in its execution that it has led border control officials beyond the limits of international law. That former prime minister Tony Abbott has proffered it as an archetypal policy for European nations facing pressure from <b>asylum</b> seekers is as saddening as it is bewildering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> contends Operation Sovereign Borders has broken several conventions designed to protect persons from danger or persecution and that the government has breached anti-smuggling protocols. Indeed, it says the government's actions have further endangered <b>asylum</b> seekers. The Age has been saying as much for years.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As The Age's Jewel Topsfield reported this year, Border Force officials in May paid $US32,000 to the crew of a <b>boat</b> carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers off northern Australia. After holding the passengers in cells for some days, officials transferred the entire cohort to overcrowded boats, supplied them with fuel, a global positioning system device, maps and life-jackets, and directed them to land on an Indonesian island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amnesty says this act, of paying the crew and aiding covert passage into Indonesia, grafted Australia to the chain of illegalities that is people smuggling. That is how perverted the game has become. What the Abbott government pompously portrayed as a noble endeavour - the protection of lives - was an artifice to satisfy a craven political agenda.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet Tony Abbott, the man who stood at the helm of the nation and contended his "stop the boats" policy was a wise and good thing, now has the temerity to promote this as the solution to Europe's considerable problems. He suggests Europe should lock its borders, turn back boats at sea (using force, if necessary), deposit <b>asylum</b> seekers and migrants in camps and so on, because this "is the only way to prevent a tide of humanity surging through Europe, and quite possibly changing it forever".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We detect a reversion to the dog-whistling old days. But Mr Abbott went further. He suggested leaders should abandon the "love thy neighbour" tenet that underpins humanity, else Europe risks falling into "catastrophic error". And there we detect the corruption of Mr Abbott's moral compass. That is how extreme his views really are, and what poverty of leadership this nation endured for two long years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott's views are so detached from events on the ground in Europe that it beggars belief any leader of integrity would take them seriously. He does not (or refuses to) recognise the world is in the midst of an historic wave of migration, triggered by terrorism and war; by political, religious and gender-based persecution; and by the inability or unwillingness of states, police and justice systems to curb violence and enforce respect for human rights.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Millions of people are on the move. Deny them safety, lock them out of opportunity and there is a very real risk that lives will be lost, the violence will continue and hopes will diminish to nothing - and that will exacerbate grievances.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fortress Europe and Fortress Australia are anachronistic, unjust and odious concepts. The world already has changed, and this tide of migration cannot be stopped by plugging holes in fences or transferring people into inflatable dinghies and pointing them to lands where thugs and criminals rage. Nor can it be halted by locking people in flimsy camps, where they are denied hope and lose dignity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amnesty's damning indictment of Australia's <b>asylum</b>-seeker policies must not be ignored by voters nor swept aside by political cowardice. We urge the Turnbull government to turn this around, and we urge leaders from legal, business, religious and cultural communities to condemn policies that are so perverted. We must stand up for what is right.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>amnsty : Amnesty International</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gdip : International Relations | gpol : Domestic Politics | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | nedi : Editorials | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020151028ebat0002i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151028ebat0005h" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott has deserted his seat</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Alex Malley. Alex Malley is chief executive of CPA Australia.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>748 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From personal experience and by all other accounts, Tony Abbott is a good guy. Many suggest he's surprisingly funny, caring and dedicated to public service. People who know him best say he's the sort of guy you can have a beer with. After all, what's not to like about a politician of 21 years standing who can ride a bike and hold his own on a big day at North Steyne?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet events since mid-September, when he lost the top job to Malcolm Turnbull, point to a level of entitlement that is disconnected from real world expectations.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once the deed was done, Abbott virtually disappeared. He didn't front the cameras to publicly own his ballot defeat. He didn't even personally visit the Governor-General, reportedly faxing his resignation letter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He went on radio to say that he's "too young to retire" and that he's considering his options but won't be making decisions "this side of Christmas". He also spent a lot of time talking up his achievements and trying to cement his legacy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's never nice to be spurned by your colleagues but the reality is that people lose their jobs every day. It's happened to me. The difference here is that most of us don't have the opportunity to rewrite our legacies - we're flat out paying the bills while searching for a new job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I understand Abbott is relatively young, but as the member for Warringah, he's not unemployed. He may have lost the top job, but he still has a job. That's not the case for the 500 people from <span class="companylink">BlueScope Steel</span> in Port Kembla who'll shortly be joining the unemployment queues or the 200 Santos staff in South Australia whose jobs are being shed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And now we see Abbott on the international speakers' circuit with a first-up appearance in London to tell European leaders that his <b>boat</b> turn-back policy is the best way to manage their <b>refugee</b> crisis. Not sure the German Chancellor, who's working to accommodate up to one million refugees in her country, will appreciate the contribution. Nonetheless, Abbott's agency, the <span class="companylink">Washington Speakers Bureau</span>, says he has "unparalleled insight on leadership" and is an expert on negotiation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While there are those who'll have differing views about Abbott's leadership and negotiation credentials, there's nothing amiss with earning a living on the global speakers' circuit - except that it's a world away from representing the interests of the voters of Warringah.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He's being paid by you and I to represent the 102,000 people of Manly, Dee Why, Balgowlah and elsewhere in his electorate. He has a backbencher salary, is looking at an annual pension of more than $300,000 and potentially other entitlements. Is it appropriate to take time out from that? Is it right to occupy a job you've no longer got the interest, focus or passion for?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When you choose a public life, you accept the possibility of a public defeat. It's a part of the game - and you move on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The real world is an unemployment rate of 6.2 per cent, and more than double that in some outer urban and regional areas, with all the economic and social challenges that brings. The real world of employment doesn't provide the luxury of time-out for contemplation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Anyone can manage success, but it's how you manage the disappointments and difficulties that truly reflects your leadership credentials. If Abbott was to look into his core of decency, which many refer to, he'd see that he's had a good innings. If his interests lie elsewhere, then don't just occupy the crease - make way for someone else who has the fire in the belly to serve and make their mark in public office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The choice is there. Let's hope the Christmas break allows Abbott to balance the public interest with his own and he makes a leadership decision that he can be proud of when the dust settles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whichever way he goes, we're watching a living, breathing example of the case against career politicians. It appears Washington is a popular destination these days and may even provide the opportunity for sleep-overs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alex Malley is chief executive of CPA Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document SMHH000020151028ebat0005h</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020151028ebat0001h" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cash to smugglers a crime: Amnesty; Report damns 'lawless' Australia</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Jewel Topsfield   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>504 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A004</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2015 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cash to smugglers a crime: Amnesty</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Report damns 'lawless' Australia</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Jewel Topsfield</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian officials who paid people smugglers to return a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia committed a transnational crime and put dozens of lives at risk, according to a damning report that calls for a royal commission into the scandal. In its report <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> also calls for an investigation into a second case of possible payments to a crew intercepted by the Australian Navy and Border Force on July25. "When it comes to its treatment of those seeking <b>asylum</b>, Australia is becoming a lawless state," Amnesty International <b>refugee</b> researcher Anna Shea says. In June Fairfax Media revealed an Indonesian police investigation found people smugglers had been paid more than $US30,000 by Australian officials to return a <b>boat</b> that was headed for New Zealand. The revelations - never denied by former prime minister Tony Abbott - prompted a Senate inquiry, due to report next year, and caused a diplomatic incident with Indonesia. Ms Shea says all the available evidence points to Australian officials committing a transnational crime by, in effect, directing a people smuggling operation in May this year, paying a <b>boat</b> crew and then instructing them exactly where to land in Indonesia. The report By Hook or by Crook - Australia's Abuse of <b>Asylum</b> Seekers at Sea says Australian officials may have also breached the people smuggling provisions in the Australian criminal code, although some public officials may</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">have immunity from liability. It accuses Australian officials of keeping <b>asylum</b> seekers - including a pregnant woman, two children and an infant - in cells for about a week on a Border Force ship after being told they could bathe there. It says some were denied medical care or access to their own medication. The report also contradicts claims made by the Operation Sovereign Border taskforce that the May 2015 operation was intended to save lives following a distress call. "The crew and <b>asylum</b> seekers - interviewed separately - consistently told <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> that the <b>boat</b> was not in distress at the time of either interception on 17 or 22 May." Instead, <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> says Border Force and Navy officials put dozens of lives at risk by forcing <b>asylum</b> seekers onto poorly equipped vessels, one of which ran out of fuel necessitating a dangerous mid-sea transfer. <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> also calls for an investigation into a second possible cash payment on July 25, when Australia intercepted a <b>boat</b> with 25 <b>asylum</b> seekers from Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan. Passengers told the human rights organisation that when they were put on a new <b>boat</b> on August 1, crew had two new bags they had not seen before. However an Indonesian police officer told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> that crew members and <b>asylum</b> seekers on the second <b>boat</b> had made no mention of bribes or payments made by Australian officials. A spokeswoman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton denied all of the claims being made in the Amnesty report.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>amnsty : Amnesty International</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020151028ebat0001h</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020151028ebat0000f" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News - The Nation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Amnesty details brutal results of Abbott directive</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Bachelard   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>409 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Analysis</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tony Abbott used his first outing on the international speakers' circuit to urge Europe to moderate its love for its neighbours, and instead to turn back their boats - an action that will "require some force ... [and] gnaw at our consciences".</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, from Indonesia, an <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> report tells us exactly what this use of force looks like.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As has been documented more than once, activities that a succession of Australian ministers have coyly avoided talking about as "on-water matters", involve some pretty nasty behaviour.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Amnesty says one infamous turn-back this year involved uniformed Australian officers boarding an <b>asylum</b> seeker vessel, lying to its occupants, taking them on to Australian warships and incarcerating them by force, limiting food and medical attention, then paying the crew to take them back to Indonesia with minimal fuel to face significant danger on landing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked about the payment, both Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop answered "No". Abbott later virtually, but not actually, contradicted them when he said Australia would close its borders to <b>boat</b>-borne <b>asylum</b> seekers "by hook or by crook".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lies, if the Amnesty report is to be believed, have continued. An Operation Sovereign Borders Joint Agency Task Force has told an Australian Senate committee that the operation was a rescue mission, intended to save lives following a distress call. Amnesty says, on the basis of interviews with <b>asylum</b> seekers and the <b>boat</b>'s crew, that the <b>boat</b> was simply boarded, not rescued.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The questions that hang over this turn-back prompt us to ask what else has happened without our knowledge. The most infamous example of alleged brutality was the "burned hands" <b>boat</b> of January 2014. Can we really believe the navy's and Customs' denials that anything untoward happened?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The reality is this. We have put a group of highly trained and armed young Australians out of sight on the high seas, excused them from various laws and authorised them to use whatever force is necessary to turn desperate people back on a dangerous journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We have attacked anyone attempting to scrutinise or question their actions; removed any notion of political oversight. That has the potential to encourage illegality and, potentially, brutality.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever the rights and wrongs of "stopping the boats", what happens as a result probably does not gnaw nearly enough at our conscience.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>amnsty : Amnesty International</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcrim : Crime/Courts | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | indon : Indonesia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020151028ebat0000f</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020151028ebat00001" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Call for probe of smuggler payments</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>295 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian officials who paid people smugglers to return a boatload of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Indonesia committed a transnational crime and put dozens of lives at risk, according to a damning report that calls for a royal commission into the scandal.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In its report, <span class="companylink">Amnesty International</span> calls for an investigation into a second case of possible payments to a crew intercepted by the Australian Navy and Border Force on July 25.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report, based on extensive interviews with smuggled <b>asylum</b> seekers and the <b>boat</b>'s crew, vindicates <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>'s reporting of the case in June. We revealed people smugglers had been paid more than $US30,000 by Australian officials to return a <b>boat</b> that was headed for New Zealand. Those stories were initially flatly denied by two Abbott government ministers before they retreated to neither confirming nor denying the facts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The report came as Tony Abbott boasted of his <b>asylum</b> seeker policy in London, using his first overseas speaking engagement at a gathering of the British Conservative Party to argue Europe was falling into "catastrophic error" with its "love they neighbour" approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Delivering the keynote address at the Margaret Thatcher lecture, Mr Abbott recommended Europe adopt Australia's tough attitudes and policies towards <b>asylum</b> seekers, or risk "fundamentally weakening" themselves through "misguided altruism".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, according to a new <span class="companylink">Monash University</span> study, the Abbott years saw an increase in popular support for immigration and multiculturalism. Researcher Andrew Markus said re-establishing "control of the border" appears to have increased support by giving people an increased level of comfort.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The survey found anti-Muslim sentiment runs at 22 per cent of the population, but is much lower in Melbourne than in Sydney.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcrim : Crime/Courts | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AGEE000020151028ebat00001</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020151028ebat00056" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Arts</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sharing stories is one way to keep extremism at bay</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Marc McEvoy   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>546 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A project aimed at encouraging schoolchildren in western Sydney to write stories about themselves could help stop lonely, isolated teenagers from being radicalised by terrorist groups, says a leading author of children's and young adults' books.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children's laureate Jackie French, author of the award-winning Diary of a Wombat and Pennies for Hitler, says My Story, a project for which she is ambassador and helped launch with the Children's Festival of Moving Stories, presented next month by the Sydney Writers' Festival, will give schoolchildren the opportunity to publish stories about their lives online.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Already, eight stories written by children of refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers living in the western suburbs have been earmarked to run on the Sydney Writers' Festival website from November 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Children who arrived here by <b>boat</b> from Myanmar and Iraq have written about their harrowing past but also about why they love soccer or why they like going to school in Australia, says the festival's head of children's programs, Jeanmarie Morosin.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This resulted from a couple of workshops we ran during the September school holidays with Settlement Services International, which represents <b>refugee</b> and <b>asylum</b>-seeker children."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Morosin expects hundreds of stories to be submitted for the project.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other highlights of the Children's Festival include Russ the Story Bus, a mobile library that provides a free book-exchange service; the Children's Author Roadshow, author talks and workshops at libraries in Bankstown, Blacktown, Parramatta, Cabramatta, Liverpool and Penrith from November 16 to 27; and a talk by Diary of a Wimpy Kid American author Jeff Kinney, and popular Australian author Andy Griffiths at the City Recital Hall in Sydney on November 8.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">French, a passionate advocate for children's literature who speaks to thousands of schoolchildren each year, says western Sydney is a complex cultural mix that deserves a voice. At one school she visited, there were 83 home languages other than English spoken among the students.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's easy for us to think of a group of people as being without faces and My Story will give faces to the people of western Sydney," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When you read other people's views of themselves you will start to see this is the person beside me on the bus or the person sitting next to me in the cafe. This is who we are."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">French says publishing their stories will help children understand each other. A five-year study by the University of London, she says, found that the teenagers most vulnerable to being drawn into terrorist activities were those who felt socially isolated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Encouraging children to take part in projects such as My Story increases their social connection, she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A 14-year-old western Sydney boy wrote to French recently saying he had learnt from Pennies for Hitler that you should be wary of people who make you angry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The solution is never listen to people who make you angry," French says. "If anyone does that, whether it is a politician or someone in the schoolyard, they are only trying to control you."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Go to swf.org.au/childrens-festival-of-moving-stories/my-story for full details</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Abbott's lessons for Europe</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tony Abbott   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2084 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>60</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Borders</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his address to the second annual Margaret Thatcher Centre Gala Dinner, former prime minister Tony Abbott says his government's policy on illegal immigration could be applied to the European migrant crisis.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am both honoured and humbled to give this lecture in memory of Margaret Thatcher, who revived the "great" in Great Britain and whose leadership was the gold standard to which so many others have subsequently aspired.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She was, indeed, the longest-serving British prime minister since Walpole, but she was so much more than just an election winner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A "mind-the-shop" conservative she most emphatically was not. She didn't just respond to events; she shaped them and, in so doing, she changed Britain and she changed the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's true that the world she helped to create: of rising prosperity almost everywhere driven by freer markets; of declining international tension under benign American leadership; and of increasing democratic pluralism inspired by the collapse of communism, now seems a fading dream - but we, her admirers, are here to improve things, not to lament them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Obviously, the defeat of Stephen Harper's government in Canada is a bitter blow - but he changed his country for the better and he proved that conservatives can win elections not once but three times running.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In this audience, some may be disappointed that my own prime ministership in Australia lasted two years after removing Labor from office - but as Lord Melbourne is supposed to have said "to be the Queen's first minister even for three months is a damn fine thing".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Set against the decisive victory of the Cameron government here - helped by Lynton Crosby - and John Key's third straight win in New Zealand, recent developments are hardly the eclipse of conservatism, more the ebb and flow of politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lesson of Margaret Thatcher's life is that strong leaders can make a difference; that what's impossible today may be almost inevitable tomorrow; and that optimism is always justified while good people are prepared to "have a go", as we say in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Margaret Thatcher inherited a Britain that was in rapid economic and strategic decline, and left it the most dynamic economy in Europe, and the United States' principal global ally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She didn't see unions protecting workers so much as bullying their employers into bankruptcy. She didn't see state-owned enterprises as "national champions" so much as an endless burden on taxpayers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was a moral dimension and an intellectual clarity that made her a hero to liberal conservatives everywhere, rather than simply another successful politician. To Thatcher, the prime ministership wasn't about holding office; it was about getting things done. It wasn't about achieving consensus; it was about doing the right thing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's usually presumptuous to invoke the glorious dead in support of current policy - but your invitation to give this lecture suggests there was at least a hint of Thatcher about my government in Australia: stopping the flow of illegal immigrant boats because a country that can't control its borders starts to lose control of itself; the repeal of the carbon tax that was socialism masquerading as environmentalism; budget repair so that within five years, the Australian government will once again be living within its means; the free trade agreements with our biggest markets to increase competition and make it fairer; the royal commission into corrupt union bosses; an even stronger alliance with the United States and a readiness to call out Russia for the shooting down of a civilian airliner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Parliamentary democracy and the rule of law; "freedom broadening slowly down from precedent to precedent"; the notion of civilisation as a trust between the living, the dead and the yet to be born: this was the heritage she'd been elected to preserve and strengthen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her focus - were she still with us - would be the things of most consequence: managing the nation-changing, culture-shifting population transfers now impacting on Europe; winning the fight in Syria and Iraq which is helping to drive them; and asserting Western civilisation against the challenge of militant Islam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Naturally, the safety and prosperity that exists almost uniquely in Western countries is an irresistible magnet. These blessings are not the accidents of history but the product of values painstakingly discerned and refined, and of practices carefully cultivated and reinforced over hundreds of years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Implicitly or explicitly, the imperative to "love your neighbour as you love yourself" is at the heart of every Western polity. It expresses itself in laws protecting workers, in strong social security safety nets, and in the readiness to take in refugees. It's what makes us decent and humane countries as well as prosperous ones, but - right now - this wholesome instinct is leading much of Europe into catastrophic error.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All countries that say "anyone who gets here can stay here" are now in peril, given the scale of the population movements that are starting to be seen. There are tens - perhaps hundreds - of millions of people, living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Who could blame them? Yet no country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself. This is the risk that the countries of Europe now run through misguided altruism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On a somewhat smaller scale, Australia has faced the same predicament and overcome it. The first wave of illegal arrivals to Australia peaked at 4000 people a year, back in 2001, before the Howard government first stopped the boats: by processing illegal arrivals offshore; by denying them permanent residency; and in a handful of cases, by turning illegal immigrant boats back to Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second wave of illegal <b>boat</b> people was running at the rate of 50,000 a year - and rising fast - by July 2013, when the Rudd government belatedly reversed its opposition to offshore processing; and then my government started turning boats around, even using orange lifeboats when people smugglers deliberately scuttled their vessels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's now 18 months since a single illegal <b>boat</b> has made it to Australia. The immigration detention centres have all but closed; budget costs peaking at $4 billion a year have ended; and - best of all - there are no more deaths at sea. That's why stopping the boats and restoring border security is the only truly compassionate thing to do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Because Australia once more has secure borders and because it's the Australian government rather than people smugglers that now controls our <b>refugee</b> intake, there was massive public support for my government's decision, just last month, to resettle 12,000 members of persecuted minorities from the Syrian conflict - per capita, the biggest resettlement contribution that any country has made.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, while prime minister, I was loath to give public advice to other countries whose situations are different, but because people smuggling is a global problem and because Australia is the only country that has successfully defeated it - twice, under conservative governments - our experience should be studied.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Europe, as with Australia, people claiming <b>asylum</b> - invariably - have crossed not one border but many and are no longer fleeing in fear but are contracting in hope with people smugglers. However desperate, almost by definition, they are economic migrants because they had already escaped persecution when they decided to move again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our moral obligation is to receive people fleeing for their lives. It's not to provide permanent residency to anyone and everyone who would rather live in a prosperous Western country than their own. That's why the countries of Europe, while absolutely obliged to support the countries neighbouring the Syrian conflict, are more than entitled to control their borders against those who are no longer fleeing a conflict but seeking a better life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This means turning boats around for people coming by sea. It means denying entry at the border for people with no legal right to come. And it means establishing camps for people who currently have nowhere to go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It will require some force, it will require massive logistics and expense, it will gnaw at our consciences - yet it is the only way to prevent a tide of humanity surging through Europe and quite possibly changing it forever.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are rediscovering the hard way that justice tempered by mercy is an exacting ideal as too much mercy for some necessarily undermines justice for all.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian experience proves that the only way to dissuade people seeking to come from afar is not to let them in. Working with other countries and with international agencies is important but the only way to stop people trying to gain entry is firmly and unambiguously to deny it - out of the moral duty to protect one's own people and to stamp out people smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So it's good that Europe has now deployed naval vessels to intercept people smuggling boats in the Mediterranean - but as long as they're taking passengers aboard rather than turning boats around and sending them back, it's a facilitator rather than a deterrent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some years ago, before the Syrian conflict escalated, extended into Iraq and metastasised into the ungoverned spaces of Libya, Yemen, Nigeria and Afghanistan, I got into trouble for urging caution in a fight that was "baddies versus baddies".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now that a quarter of a million people have been killed, 7 million people are internally displaced and 4 million people are destitute outside its borders and considering coming to Europe, the Syrian conflict is too big and too ramifying not to be everyone's problem.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rise of <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> has turned it into a fight between bad and worse: the Assad regime whose brutality is the <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> death cult's chief local recruiter and a caliphate seeking to export its apocalyptic version of Islam right around the world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the sheer scale of the horror unfolding in Syria, Iraq and everywhere <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> gains a foothold - the beheadings, the crucifixions, the mass executions, the hurling off high buildings, the sexual slavery - and its perverse allure across the globe, it's striking how little has been done to address this problem at its source.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The United States and its allies, including Britain and Australia, have launched air strikes against this would-be terrorist empire. We've helped to contain its advance in Iraq but we haven't defeated it because it can't be defeated without more effective local forces on the ground.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everyone should recoil from an escalating air campaign, perhaps with Western special forces on the ground as well as trainers, in a part of the world that's such a witches' brew of danger and complexity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, no American or British or Australian parent should face bereavement in a fight far away - but what is the alternative? Leaving anywhere, even Syria, to the collective determination of Russia, Iran and <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> should be too horrible to contemplate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That's why it's a pity that the recent <span class="companylink">UN</span> leaders' week summit was solely about countering violent extremism - which everyone agrees involves working with Muslim communities - and not about dealing much more effectively with the caliphate that's now the most potent inspiration for it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, the challenge of militant Islam needs more than a military solution - but people do have to be protected against potential genocide. Of course, you can't arrest your way to social harmony - but home-grown terrorism does need a strong security response. Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims don't support terrorism - but many still think that death should be the punishment for apostasy. Of course, the true meaning of Islam is a matter for Muslims to resolve - but everyone has a duty to support and protect those decent, humane Muslims who accept cultural diversity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like the countries of Europe, Australia struggles to come to terms with the local terrorism that <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> has inspired. Like you, we are trying to contain <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> from the air while waiting for a Syrian strategy to emerge. But unlike you, we have at least solved one of the wicked problems now afflicting Europe: we have secured our own borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All of us, then, must ponder Margaret Thatcher's example while we wait to see who might claim her mantle. Good values, clear analysis and a doable plan, in our day as in hers, are the essentials of the strong leadership the world needs.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>European leaders don't need Abbott's advice, Labor says</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Primrose Riordan   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>669 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>29 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2015. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who has been embraced by British Conservatives in the wake of a speech calling for the <span class="companylink">EU</span> to turn back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats, does not have the solutions to the migrant crisis, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten said: "I am not sure European leaders grappling with a scale and a dimension of a problem which we don't have in Australia are necessarily going to benefit by Tony Abbott's advice.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"As we have seen from the dreadful scenes in the Mediterranean, to the massive border queues and the movement of millions of people, I am not sure Tony Abbott on a victory lap giving a Margaret Thatcher lecture is exactly what Europe needs to solve its problems," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull refused to comment on Mr Abbott's arguments, but said wryly that his views were in "hot demand" across the globe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">British media labelled Mr Abbott's speech, in which he also called for the <span class="companylink">EU</span> to adopt Australia's border control measures, as "chilling" and "a bombshell warning" to Europe, as the head of the UK Independence Party, or UKIP, Nigel Farage, heaped praise on the former Australian leader.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull, touring South Australia, refused to respond to Mr Abbott's argument that Europe risks making a catastrophic error unless it starts turn back <b>asylum</b> seeker boats and adopt Australia's border control policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Tony has given a speech. I will leave others to run the commentary on it. He has obviously had a remarkable career in public life, including two years as PM. We owe him a great debt for that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"His views are in hot demand everywhere in the world," Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At his first formal post-leadership speech, Mr Abbott warned troops "on the ground" should be considered to combat <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> and militant extremism in Syria and Iraq, and Western forces should not pull out of the region.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Leaving anywhere, even Syria, to the collective determination of Iran, Russia and <span class="companylink">Daesh</span> [<span class="companylink">Islamic State</span>] should be too horrible to contemplate," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said there were no plans at present for Australia to deploying troops to <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> hot-spots in Syria and Iraq, but that could change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We don't have any plans to change the nature of our deployment in that theatre, that is not to say they won't change in the future. We have to be, just as we have to be agile, in terms of innovation policy, we have to be agile in terms of our approach to the security challenges we face," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten came across as cold on the idea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I am not sure that military intervention alone, extending right through a complex situation where there is a lot of barbarity and the government itself has behaved in a shocking manner, I don't know Australia wading in with some sort of naive approach will add a lot to what is already the misery going on there," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abbott said Europe should learn from the "Australian experience" in immigration and border security by turning back boats or it will be "forever changed", saying that "misguided altruism" was "leading much of Europe into catastrophic error".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson Young hit out at Mr Abbott, saying he was an embarrassment to Australia and "obsessed" with <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Tony Abbott still making a fool of himself and embarrassing Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"His obsession with pushing people in need away is beyond belief," she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Minister for Territories, Local Government and Major Projects, Paul Fletcher, refused to be drawn on whether boots on the ground were needed in Syria, simply saying the situation "is an extremely difficult one".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Fletcher said however, that Mr Abbott had made a "powerful point" that it was because Australia had strong border control policies we were able to offer 12,000 places to Syrian refugees.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Educating <b>asylum</b> seekers the smart thing to do</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Sandy Gifford, Peter Mares - Sandy Gifford is a professor of anthropology and <b>refugee</b> studies and Peter Mares is an adjunct fellow, both at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research.  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>968 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>51</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.  www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]  </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malcolm Turnbull should extend student loan schemes to <b>asylum</b> seekers and some refugees on temporary visas, write Sandy Gifford and Peter Mares.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On October 21, The Age reported on the case of Ali*, a VCE student who faces a far more uncertain future than most of his contemporaries. This is an anxious time for all year 12 students as they worry about doing sufficiently well in their exams to get into their preferred course. For refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers on temporary visas, however, education stops with their final exam.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali is far from alone. The exact number of <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees in the final year of high school is difficult to determine, but we know there are more than 4000 children on bridging visas or in community detention in Australia. Through our networks, we are aware of many students who, like Ali, can only dream of further study after they complete high school.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mohamed* is in year 12 at a state high school. He has loved science from a young age and cherishes the hope of being an engineer. His subjects include physics, chemistry, maths methods and English - his fifth language, and one he speaks fluently, although he has lived in Australia for less than three years and spent some of that time in detention. Despite his intellectual gifts, Mohamed is deeply disheartened and questioning the point of studying hard for his final exams. As an <b>asylum</b> seeker on a bridging visa, he will need to pay the full fees of an international student if he wants to undertake further study in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This will not change, even if he is eventually recognised as a <b>refugee</b>. Because Mohamed arrived by <b>boat</b>, he will only be granted a temporary protection visa - a visa that denies him access to university entrance, unless he pays up-front fees. Mohamed and his family have no hope of finding the tens of thousands of dollars required.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mohamed's sister Sherene* is a bright and vivacious year 11 student, who is also doing well at school, but she knows that at this time next year she will face the same roadblock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia can and must do better than this. There is no logic of deterrence that can justify blighting the future of a young person in this way. It is simply wrong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even if ethical considerations are set aside and the policy is viewed through an unfeeling prism of costs and benefits, it still makes no sense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mohamed, Sherene, Ali and others in similar circumstances might end up spending many years in Australia, or it might become their permanent home. Clearly, it is not only better for them, but also for our nation, if they develop their capabilities and enlarge their possibilities so they can contribute more to the community. If, for whatever reason, they return to their homeland, then at least we would be sending them back with increased skills.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Malcolm Turnbull fully understands how a good education can change an individual's life and improve society. We call on the Prime Minister to extend the HECS/HELP student loan scheme to <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees on temporary visas who meet the entrance criteria for further study. To refuse to do so is to crush the hopes of youth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There would be costs involved, but these would be outweighed by the benefits. If the student remains in Australia long term, they would pay back the loan through the tax system, as other graduates do. Their increased wages through the higher earnings that come with further education would contribute to general revenue. Their skilled work would boost productivity and growth. If they are sent back to their homeland, or return voluntarily, we can convert the debt into international aid and regard it as part of our contribution to rebuilding efforts in war-torn countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We hope Turnbull will see sense on this, but universities cannot wait for government to take the lead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as clinicians at the Royal Children's Hospital have given potent expression to their professional ethics by refusing to discharge <b>asylum</b>-seeker children into the health-destroying conditions of immigration detention, so staff at Australian universities must stand up for the rights of young people to increase their knowledge and skills and expand their horizons. We must insist that our institutions develop a scheme to provide supported places to eligible refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers, whether for university study, a TAFE course, or an apprenticeship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are heartened that our own university, Swinburne, is doing its best to offer scholarships to individual <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees when particular cases are brought to its attention, but a reliance on individual lobbying efforts risks being highly selective. Those without a champion will miss out, so we need a fairer, more systematic approach.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There could even be a dash of far-sighted self-interest in this. Imagine that a young Mohamed or Sherene gets a start from a university scholarship and then, like so many past migrants who have come to Australia as refugees, goes on to become a successful and wealthy entrepreneur. Isn't it highly likely that in future decades they will respond generously to approaches from the university to become a benefactor?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But we don't need pragmatic reasons to do what is right. Education is a gift that can never be taken away and that always has shared benefits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia should open the door to higher education opportunities for these young people, regardless of where they will make their futures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">*Names have been changed for privacy reasons.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>VOICES HEARD</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>LEANNE EDMISTONE   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>931 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>UOnSunday</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A unique Australian album brings together the world’s voices and shows <b>asylum</b> seekers’ talent</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Music and singing has always been a secret passion for Saharnez. For so long it had to be, for her own safety.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Growing up in Iran, women were not allowed to sing or perform in public. Prohibited mainstream Western music had to be smuggled across the borders, cassettes dubbed and passed from family to family to be enjoyed furtively.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Saharnez was 11, police burst into her school’s small musical concert and smashed the students’ guitars. She didn’t pick up an instrument again, let alone sing, for years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was so small and after that I couldn’t play, I didn’t want to play because I was shocked, every time I remember that thing,’’ she says, now 23 and living in Australia. Perhaps seeing his only child’s despair, Saharnez’s father Majid introduced her to the music of his idols, Pink Floyd. One song in particular, Coming Back to Life, resonated with the young singer … “I took a heavenly ride through our silence, I knew the moment had arrived, For killing the past and coming back to life.’’ “My father said to me, ‘listen to the music that will change your life, do not just listen to the music that doesn’t give anything to you’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When I was around 11 or 12, I thought life is finished, everything is black and there is no love anymore. But every time I listen to this song it gives me the feeling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Pink Floyd gave me the belief that sometimes you shouldn’t just search for the shine in life, but should bring the shine to other people.’’ Now years later and half a world away, in that beautifully serendipitous circular way life has, Saharnez is singing Pink Floyd’s power ballad about poverty and oppression, On the Turning Away, for a new album Sugarmill Road, produced by GANGgajang and Yothu Yindi guitarist Robbie James for The Scattered People.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“No more turning away from the weak and the weary, No more turning away from the coldness inside, Just a world that we all must share, It’s not enough just to stand and stare, Is it only a dream that there’ll be, No more turning away?” It will be the second album for the Brisbane-based group of musicians, <b>asylum</b> seekers and refugees using music to connect, soothe trauma and fortify hope.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Several of the songs were written during weekly visits to the Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre at Pinkenba, on Brisbane’s northside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Saharnez told her father Majid, still living in Tehran, what song she was singing, it was only the second time in her life she had seen him cry. The first was when she left Iran in May 2013 for Indonesia, then went by <b>boat</b> to Christmas Island. Saharnez spent three months in detention there and in Darwin, before coming to Brisbane as a <b>refugee</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I try to forget music a couple of times. I studied information technology. I try to run away all the time from music and arts, but finally I understand that, no, I’m not this person. I love these things.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I couldn’t breathe in Iran. My father told me if you can stay one year more, give me time, I will send you to any country for study. But I couldn’t even stay one week more. Everywhere you see the sad colours in the wall, in the street, on people’s faces ... Lots of people think dead is when your body is dead, but (living there) my body moved, but my soul was finished, slowly, slowly.’’ Saharnez, who now lives in Melbourne where she sings with several groups, has also performed at the Woodford Folk Festival and worked with BEMAC, South Brisbane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In my head, all my wish was that one day I just go to Pink Floyd’s concert. All the love I have for Pink Floyd and their songs, the meaning of their songs ... I cannot believe I sing their songs. It’s too big for me. It’s amazing.’’ Recorded largely in his home studio at Shailer Park, in Brisbane’s south, James says this album and his work with The Scattered People in the past three years is a continuation of his life’s work writing about displaced and marginalised people. GANGgajang marks their 30th anniversary this year with a new album.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">James, 61, has integrated pop classical and orchestral elements into the songs, using choirs and strings, to create a uniquely Australian sound for Sugarmill Road, which he hopes will have broad appeal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We basically come from European culture – classical is our ancient music, that’s our establishment. We respect that, so if I put <b>asylum</b> seekers in that setting, it would also help people go, OK, I should respect this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I wanted to make it unique. This is not some fringe hippie world music. I wanted to make an Australian album.’’ James says he wants to show the true nature of <b>asylum</b> seekers to the Australian public, as well as showcase their unique talents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are actually changing lives by doing this. I believe you can change the world one person at a time by displaying to the world that <b>asylum</b> seekers are just real people. Music can do that in the way nothing else can; where words fail, music speaks.’’On The Turning Away is now available to download and album Sugarmill Road will be released on Friday. scatteredpeople.com</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Heartache and hope: My experience of life on Nauru</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>711 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>62</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘MAAATE,” said my new friend in a faux Australian accent, “hope to see you again, maaate.” We’d just had a great night of tuna sashimi, Australian beer and Persian music with Iranian refugees on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The island is seared into the Australian political consciousness – and not in a good way.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All we have heard is stories of detention, riots, alleged abuse and even rape and assaults.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Let me tell you what it is really like, right now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the week, Adelaide photographer Kelly Barnes and I became the first Australian media on the island in years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Leftist journalists whinge that Nauru let me in because they think it might have been due to my support for offshore processing but they overlook how strident campaigning against strong borders has been the hallmark of most journalists. Besides, while most Australians support strong border protection – it saves lives, maintains sovereignty and gives control over our immigration system – all of us would object to people being mistreated in our name.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My preference is for an acquaintance with the facts. On Nauru now, you can be helped in a government office, served in a shop or checked by a security guard who is a <b>refugee</b>. Old expectations of refugees being detained in a camp are gone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the local swimming hole – a small harbour patrolled by Nauruan lifeguards – refugees from Myanmar, Afghanistan and Iran swim with islanders and Aussie workers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru has population of 10,000, so with more than 1000 refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers, they pop up everywhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Somalian and Iraqi women in traditional Muslim dress stand out against the casually-dressed Nauruans. There are 30 nationalities – more than one for every square kilometre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The refugees (and <b>asylum</b>-seekers waiting for <b>refugee</b> status) share diabolic stories that brought them here and depressing uncertainty about the future. But, thankfully, the idea of detention is effectively finished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are still three processing centres in the heart of the island; these are spartan places, built mainly with tents and transportable buildings on land carved out of the rock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Single men have cramped bunk areas in large dormitory tents with no airconditioning. Large fans blast air from every direction to cut the equatorial humidity. But there is an air-conditioned mess, three good meals a day, English lessons and recreation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, most importantly, the men can come and go as they please, night and day. Shuttle buses run between the camps and around the island. Families are based in another processing centre, in similarly bleak surroundings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Australian-run school at the centre closed in July and, to be frank, some refugees look down on the islander schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a problem that needs to be fixed as quickly as possible. The children seem very resilient and have good health care and support. But they need to go to school.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everyone we meet has a story; everyone we meet is a story. We sit with a Syrian man and his five sons, aged nine to 25, and sense his despair at having brought his boys to this; they Skype their mother once a week in Damascus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In ramshackle <b>refugee</b> accommodation near the beach, a worried Iranian woman, Fatenah, is pregnant with her first child. Fatenah has failing water supply in her kitchen.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I visit the President’s offices, his taps also produce no water. In other words, compared to those around them, most refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers fare quite well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those with jobs not only have extra money to spend but more purpose in their lives.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We meet an Iranian brother and sister who dream of coming to Adelaide where their other brother somehow has managed to settle after arriving on the same <b>boat</b> from Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But instead of moping, they have opened a Persian restaurant. They are sad, frustrated and sometimes angry – but they are making the most of bad situation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauru is also full of sad stories, where people who feared for their lives at home are now stuck in limbo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crucially, though, they have their lives, and they still have hope. Australia needs to find somewhere for them to go before those hopes are dashed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">KENNYC@THEAUSTRALIAN.COM.AU@chriskkenny</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Australia, losing the plot</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon  </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Refugees A young, traumatised woman who sought protection in Australia has been badly let down - THE NATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One solitary question was asked in the national Parliament this week about an issue that goes to the heart of Australia's self-image as the compassionate country of the fair go. It came from the Labor opposition, but could just as easily have been a Dorothy Dixer from a Coalition MP. "Can the minister please provide the House with information on the government decisions taken in relation to the pregnant Somali <b>asylum</b> seeker who was recently transported between Australia and Nauru?" Richard Marles asked Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the opposition, any opposition, has used the word "please" when pressing the government for information in question time, I, for one, am struggling to recall it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Marles called her an <b>asylum</b> seeker, when she is a <b>refugee</b> who has been found to have a genuine fear of persecution if returned to Somalia. He neglected to mention she was single, with a complicated medical history, and that she maintains the pregnancy is the result of being raped on July 18 after her release from detention on Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His question was open-ended, rather than focused on why it had taken so long to bring the woman to Australia after she requested an abortion (which is unlawful on Nauru), and why she was returned on a charter flight after just five days, at significant cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No wonder Dutton began his response by thanking Marles for the question, and "very much for the way he framed the question as well".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton then set out to counter the claims by lawyer George Newhouse, that the woman known as Abyan (not her real name) had received totally inadequate treatment since the alleged rape, both on Nauru and during her short stay in Australia. The minister told how she saw a primary health nurse on arrival in Brisbane on October 11 and how, in subsequent days, her situation was reviewed by a mental health nurse and a GP, usually with an interpreter present, before she said that she did not wish to proceed with the abortion and was returned to Nauru. But something was lost amid the claim and counter-claim: a young, vulnerable and traumatised woman who sought protection in Australia has been very badly let down by the system, not once but at almost every turn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is left is a swag of unanswered questions that go to the heart of the arrangement between the Australian and Nauru governments: why was Abyan reluctant to report the alleged assault to Nauruan police? What level of care did she receive after the pregnancy was confirmed on August 25, prompting her decision to seek a termination? Why did it take so long for her to be brought to Australia? Why were her only interactions with nurses and a GP (or GPs) in Australia?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The answer to the threshold question, Abyan has told supporters in Australia, is that she feared going to the Nauruan police, did not want anyone to know about the assault and only revealed it when the pregnancy was confirmed. Her reticence is explained by the experience of a 23-year-old Iranian, whose shocking story was told on ABC TV's Lateline this week and is a case study in worst practice when it comes to dealing with sexual assault.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The more troubling question is why Abyan was denied access to mental-health and other specialists to help her make an informed decision on the termination in Australia. Why just a GP and a mental-health nurse?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abyan's lawyer wanted her to be able to discuss all her options in terms of the termination, with the same level of care afforded to Australian women in similar situations. But Australian officials saw the question of options through a very different prism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Her option is to be afforded the treatment, which is what she sought," is how Michael Pezzullo, the secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, put it to a Senate committee. "There is no other option available for her in terms of any other basis upon which to stay in Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The context for this response was offered by Dutton a week earlier, when he declared: "The racket that's been going on here is that people, at the margins, come to Australia from Nauru, the government's then injuncted and we can't send them back to Nauru - and there are over 200 people in that category."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Abyan's case, lawyers did seek an injunction to delay her deportation, but it was all about giving her access to health professionals. It had nothing to do with seeking to stay permanently in Australia. It was abandoned because she was already on a plane to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young asked many of the right questions during the Senate committee hearing this week, including how Abyan was feeling after being returned to Nauru. She was told that Abyan was "engaging well" and "in a positive way", with support and health services on the island, and "talking of her future on Nauru". This was not the message from Chris Kenny, the Australian journalist, who reported that Abyan was "agitated and distressed" when he knocked on her door and that she still wanted a termination, but no longer in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hanson-Young has called on the government to appoint an independent advocate or guardian to represent the interests of Abyan and others in similar situations. It's a good idea. There is also a compelling case for asking Philip Moss, who investigated allegations of sexual assault within the processing centre on Nauru and reported in February, to examine how well his recommendations have been implemented.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Brayley, the highly regarded inaugural surgeon-general of the Australian Border Force, should also be tasked with reviewing medical services on Nauru and for those in detention and in transit accommodation on Manus Island, including services to victims of sexual assault.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the inescapable conclusion is that Abyan's story is simply further evidence that the detention centres on Nauru and Manus are unsustainable, and that both continue to damage vulnerable people for no other purpose than to deter <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm despairing of it, to be honest. I just think we've lost the plot," says former Australian of the Year and eminent psychiatrist Patrick McGorry, who believes the ascension of Malcolm Turnbull provides an opportunity for a better way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maybe it does, but the prospects are grim unless hard questions are asked and honest answers are given.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael Gordon is The Age political editor.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>YOUR VIEWS</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>428 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>54</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE problem of refugees/<b>asylum</b> seekers not only concerns Australia but is worldwide and will only get worse unless a solution is found to stem the tide, particularly from the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia has its own <b>boat</b> people and another group, the Retirement <span class="companylink">Visa</span> (sub class 410) holders. I refer to the 2000 or so remaining Retirement <span class="companylink">Visa</span> holders who, despite spending many years in Australia, are classified as temporary residents unable to apply for permanent residency or citizenship.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These people are self-supporting retirees without Medicare and, like me, are paying $10,000- $11,000 a year for private health insurance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We own our own houses, pay taxes and generally contribute to the Australian economy as well as supporting family, unlike the refugees who receive handouts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Retirement Visas were stopped in 2005 so the remaining holders have made their lives here for at least 10 years, and are at an age at which they are unlikely or unable to uproot and move on again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lack of Medicare is understandable, although originally as UK tourists we did receive Medicare due to a reciprocal agreement, but as “temporary residents” we do not – a strange anomaly!</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The majority of us would welcome the opportunity of becoming permanent residents and/or Australian citizens but despite our financial independence we are denied the option.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is this lack of security of permanency which prompts our request for consideration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps, through your pages, our small voice may be heard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSPOM</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THOUSANDS of people in Queensland die of cancer through smoking and it is good Cr Dawn Crichlow is trying to stop them (Smoking laws kick butt in Southport, GCB, 19/10/15).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These smokers take a good suck on the cigarette but it is amazing the amount that comes back out for the no smokers around them to breathe in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My mother was a heavy smoker and when we came home we opened the doors and windows to clean the air. My mum died of lung cancer because of all her smoking, so keep up the good work Dawn.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RL</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT’S a tonic to read Canada has so swiftly begun to re-establish its foreign policy independence after blind obeisance to the US under the conservatives (Trudeau to recall fighters, GCB, 22/10/15).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Alas, Australia lacks leaders with the imagination to follow suit. It is obvious America is lost on the foreign policy front, and will only become more of a hapless former giant under Hillary and Bill redux. God save Australia from America.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DAVID HALL,LABRADOR</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PNG ready to begin releasing refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROSIE LEWIS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>344 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Papua New Guinea has advised the federal government it soon will begin moving refugees from the Manus Island detention centre into the community, more than two years after the nations struck a resettlement deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said he would meet PNG Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato early next week to consider the details but welcomed the ­announcement yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Rudd government and PNG signed a resettlement package in July 2013 and the Coalition government has been negotiating to finalise the arrangement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are just under 1000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers in the Manus ­Island detention centre. “The development here sends a very clear message to people- smugglers and that is that the government’s resolve is as strong as it’s ever been,” Mr Dutton said. “We are not going to resile from the fact that we have a tough policy when it comes to Operation Sovereign Borders but the dividend is we can bring people in in record numbers through the <b>refugee</b> and humanitarian program.” The move comes two weeks after Nauru said detention on the small island nation “had ended” and changed its offshore processing centre into a 24-7 “open centre”. Nearly all <b>asylum</b> claims had been determined on Sunday, the Nauru government said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Australian immigration policy, <b>asylum</b>-seekers who attempt to arrive by <b>boat</b> are turned back if it is safe to do so or sent to Nauru or Manus Island for processing. Those found to be refugees are resettled in the community or can go to Cambodia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor threw its support behind the PNG announcement but ­accused the Abbott and Turnbull governments of “mismanaging” the two countries’ relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said she was “incredibly concerned” refugees would be “dumped” into the PNG community.“The federal government is now staring down the barrel of dumping refugees — people who have fled war, torture and persecution — in one of the poorest countries in our region and ­indeed one of the most dangerous, particularly for women and children,” she said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees long to be ‘anywhere but Nauru’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Chris Kenny Associate editor   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1995 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The island haven is a tropical limbo for 1000 residents from distant shores</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Young Nauruan lifeguards, decked out in yellow and red, are watching over islander and <b>refugee</b> children swimming in the deep <b>boat</b> harbour and, as we drive along, on our left is a pair of Somalian women, resplendent in colourful wraps and scarfs, walking back from one of the island’s ubiquitous general stores.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Farther along, on the beach side of the road under a string of coconut palms, an Iranian family waits for a shuttle bus to English lessons, and on the left is an ugly instalment of double-decked accommodation for workers who help guard the <b>refugee</b> processing centres.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drivers need to take care. From an overgrown front yard a suckling pig and piglets wander to the verge while some stray dogs cross just where Nauruan children sit on the gutter. Over the rise, just beyond some sprawling frangipani trees, a ramshackle clump of <b>refugee</b> housing reveals itself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the Nauru ring road: one road in two directions around an island nation. On one side, all the way, a vast blue ocean stretches for hundreds of kilometres before there is even another tiny island, and on the other is a hotchpotch of Nauruans, refugees, <b>asylum</b>-seekers and contractors — more than 10,000 people belonging to 30 nationalities sharing 21sq km.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The locals love the place, many contractors fly in and fly out, but more than 1000 refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers would give anything to leave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whichever direction you drive on the ring road, you see all the different perspectives and end up, invariably, at the same place. Isolated, dependent and repetitive, Nauru is a living metaphor for the mental challenge facing its <b>refugee</b> population. There is happiness, hope and generosity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We tell them we are here to help, to give them a safe place,” says Nauru’s <b>refugee</b> resettlement manager Suzie Scotty, “and hope they appreciate it.” But there is also tension, pain and despondency. “We need help,” says pregnant Iranian <b>refugee</b> Fataneh. “On the trip we nearly drowned once, but now here, we are drowning every day.” In the rocky, overgrown interior of the island, the soothing crash of the waves is replaced by the constant crush of gravel underfoot. Former detention centres are now open processing centres; as we walk in, refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers walk out to ride shuttle buses to lessons, jobs or a swim.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Photographer Kelly Barnes and I are the first media to visit these controversial centres; guards accompany us but we have free range and can speak to anyone. The rules are that we cannot photograph any staff or <b>asylum</b>-seekers, but those who have <b>refugee</b> status can be photographed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The island is now home to 794 refugees and 380 <b>asylum</b>-seekers; another 233 who were sent to Australia for various medical procedures have claimed <b>asylum</b> there and, depending on the courts, may never return to Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stretched white canvas, high steel fences and aluminium transportables: the centres are stark, ­secure and spartan. There’s an air-conditioned mess and recreational areas, and three meals a day are laid on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">RPC 2 is home to single men. Double bunks crowd dormitory marquees where fans blow heavy equatorial air. It is hot, crowded and lacking in privacy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the mess the cheerful Australian chef, Andy, swears he provides the best food on the island, as he jokes with <b>asylum</b>-seeker and <b>refugee</b> friends. In a neighbouring open marquee, an Australian woman teaches English to a dozen men.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nauruan women, too, work in this male-dominated environment. There are protocols to ensure safety but the female cleaners and mess hands seem relaxed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Security guards and fences are ubiquitous, despite entry and exit being allowed for all residents 24/7. It still looks and feels like a detention centre, but isn’t one. Guards and <b>asylum</b>-seekers are on first-name terms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seeker Jude Croos awaits his prized <b>refugee</b> status. He says the food is good and life is better than at home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the mess, Pakistani <b>refugee</b> Abid Hussein still dreams of going to Australia. He has been helping out behind the counter and Andy says he’s trying to get Abid a job outside. Refugees are paid an allowance, <b>asylum</b>-seekers are not.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In new <b>refugee</b> accommodation at the other end of the island, an Iranian family huddles in a three-room prefab apartment. Unlike most Nauruan homes, it is airconditioned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rasool is an airconditioner mechanic and supplements his allowance with private mechanical repair jobs. Concerned about bullying, he has kept his daughters (Asia, 8, and Mosomah, 10) home from school and will meet their teacher. “Life is better than Iran,” he says. But he has a sister in Australia and pleads that his family has been in Nauru too long. They are desperate to resettle. “Anywhere but Nauru,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The school complaint is common. Iranian father Mahdi scoffs at Nauruan schools and summons his 12-year-old son, Asha, to explain. “They are not teaching us enough,” he says, cocky beyond his years. “They teach us nothing.” I tease that they can’t be too bad because his English is very good and he fires back in a flash: “That was at the centre: I learned English at that school, it was much better — and airconditioned.” Cultures clash. Refugees denigrate the local schools and students: “They go to the toilet in bare feet.” Speaking with and for her parents, Iraqi girl Hiba, 9, says; “We pay our money for Australia to come — not to here.” Unavoidably, the Nauruan hosts are constantly insulted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Far from perceptions in Australia, it seems that to the extent there is racism on Nauru, it is seen most often not in attitudes towards refugees but in the latter’s attitudes towards islanders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we talk to a group of Somalian and Iranian refugees, a Nauruan woman approaches in high dudgeon. “Why are you talking to them?” she demands. “They are just rubbishing Nauru, we know they just talk shit.” Relativities are crucial. The largest group of refugees is from Iran, many from Tehran. Island life and facilities are a sharp contrast to the Iranian capital, a sophisticated city of eight million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But for Somalians, Rohingya and others, the housing, services and education could well be a significant step up. Back in Australia we might judge conditions based on our own standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet tough as life is for refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers on Nauru — for a complex variety of reasons — they have access to better healthcare and other services than many remote and rural settlements in Australia. And they do fare better in many respects than their Nauruan hosts.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the fringe benefits of the immigration processing operation is that it is lifting Nauru’s education, health and security standards.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The economic trans­for­mation has been “very dramatic”, says Nauru’s Justice and Finance Minister David Adeang.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He recalls a queue for the first contractor jobs almost two years ago stretching 1km along the ring road. “It used to be that unemployment was the biggest issue in Nauru, now we have practically a shortage of labour,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have more jobs coming up than we can find labour for, we have people coming in from Kiribati and Tuvalu to get work.” Every stranded person, each family, is an epic story without an ending. Another precocious boy — Salam, a Syrian <b>refugee</b> living in RPC 3 — takes us to his family’s tent. He is the youngest of five sons delivered into this tropical limbo by their father, while their mother waits behind in Damascus. They speak to her on Skype once a week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They assemble in a sleeping area: Salam, 9; Salar, 11; Ahmeed and Mahmood, 21-year-old twins; Mohammed, 25; and their father, Jafar, 49.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five sons. I tell Jafar I have only four, so he is king. He tries, unsuccessfully, to smile.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mohammed has just been woken for lunch. Ahmeed says, “It’s like jail.” Little Salam is a motormouth, full of zest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But to scour the boys’ faces, youngest to eldest, is to see disappointment and worry increase with the years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And on Jafar’s face I see that the pride that I thought we might have in common has become, for himan unspeakable burden.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the well-equipped medical facility in RPC 1, a mental health unit is empty when we visit. The manager says it is not as busy as it used to be. With the centres being opened and refugees living in the community, many of the psychological pressures have eased.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The strains are worst for married men, we are told. They often wear the guilt of having delivered their families into purgatory. Single men cope best, apparently, because their only responsibility is themselves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In RPC 3, women and children mix and swap stories. Too many children are not at school. Mothers, fathers and children all scoff at my queries, framed a number of different ways, scanning for any hint of concerns about children being harmed or abused by fellow refugees or staff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One woman shows me her son’s arm, worried his break hasn’t healed well enough. Others say their children are unwell. But they all say their kids are safe. “It is a different type of abuse,” one mother explains. It is the uncertainty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a Nauru secondary school, islander and <b>refugee</b> teenagers study side by side. Refugees tell us some Iranian and Iraqi children now speak a little Nauruan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some parents share this with pride; others cringe at the thought. It shows they’ve been here too long.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At a mother and babies session by the beach, Nauruan women sneer at <b>refugee</b> claims of rape. They call them lies. The police commissioner refers to an investigation into one rape claim made by a Somalian <b>refugee</b> and aired uncritically in September by the ABC. “The investigation into that has come to a conclusion,” Commissioner Corey Caleb says. “That was just a set-up, in reality nothing happened.” Nauru’s President Baron Waqa is perturbed, too, saying: “Sometimes these claims are not true, and they’ve been proven not true by the police.” Adeang describes them as “fabricated” and is focused on the consequences. “It damages the relations between our two communities, the refugees and <b>asylum</b>-seekers and Nauruans,” he laments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Australian Federal Police</span> are working with their Nauruan colleagues on training programs. Clearly public confidence in security and justice needs to improve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Islander time never hurries. Many involuntary guests count every second as wasted. Others make the best of a bad situation. Our dinner at the island’s best restaurant turns into a party as Iranian refugees play Persian music and dance with their interpreters. They chat and laugh with Australia’s high commissioner.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They share their stories and plenty of laughs. But they implore me not to write that they are happy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They enjoy the moment, as they should. So do I. But in the morning, I will leave.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Iranians, Afghans, Somalians, Nauruans and expats — they all call it the swimming hole. At the Anibar community <b>boat</b> harbour, women in niqabs watch alongside Nauruan lifeguards as children of all shades splash in a cacophony of languages and accents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Australian teaches Iranians to paddleboard, and I climb out on to the sea wall where young boys shimmy up a rope, then jump 2m into the water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Rohingya teen, about 14, explains the trick is to jump far enough to clear the rocks in the shallows. He excitedly points out a large fish. He tells me he’s a <b>refugee</b> from Myanmar and I ask if he likes it here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Flashing a big smile, he motions to the island and says, “Yes.”He leaps off the wall, clears the rocks and plunges into deep water and an uncertain future on Nauru.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>What happened to reporting?</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>571 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Regurgitating lobbyists’ propaganda is not journalism</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our democracy has a serious problem. Independent scrutiny by journalists who seek out sources, ask questions and report the facts to the public is essential for its proper functioning. Associate editor Chris Kenny’s exclusive reporting from Nauru this week was a prime example. He tracked down Somalian <b>refugee</b> Abyan, 23, who invited him into her home to tell her side of a controversial story. And he found some <b>asylum</b>-seeker children were boycotting the local schools. For doing his job and breaking important stories, Kenny has copped a tirade of abuse on social media, much of it feral, personal and defamatory. Has-been hacks, human rights spruikers and Labor MP Graham Perrett, who at least has now apologised, led the charge.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week’s histrionics were a response to something that has become too scarce in Australian journalism: proactive, first-hand reporting. In an earlier era, the instinct of almost every news editor in the country when a story such as Abyan’s emerged would have been to track down the person at the centre of controversy and interview them. Gradually, however, advocacy groups have become more resourceful and professional and the media more torpid, especially in covering issues such as <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By the time the Rudd-Gillard governments lost control of Australia’s borders in 2010, human rights activists and lawyers were shaping much of the mainstream coverage of border protection. It was easier, for example, to accept the word of <b>refugee</b> advocates that <b>asylum</b>-seekers in detention centres had swallowed razor blades than to seek out the facts first-hand. Captive to the human rights lobby and its press releases, much of the media, especially the ABC and Fairfax, embraced the notion that the only decent response to the armada of people-smugglers’ vessels was to welcome the <b>asylum</b>-seekers into the community. Journalists were labelled harsh and cruel if they pointed out that those who made it to Australia by <b>boat</b> had paid $10,000 a head to self-select while others classified as refugees by the <span class="companylink">UN</span> waited in camps. In a media culture clouded by groupthink, the 1200 people who drowned at sea were often overlooked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Radio news bulletins, especially at weekends, show the media’s heavy dependence on press releases from lobbyists such as <span class="companylink">Greenpeace</span>. Such groups are entitled to their say. But problems arise when the media adopts an advocacy role, as the ABC has done over the live animal export industry, worth more than $1 billion a year and a major employer in rural and regional Australia. Animal welfare should be improved along the supply chain, from paddock to plate. And advocates who want the industry shut down, such as <span class="companylink">Animals Australia</span>’s Lyn White, have the right to campaign. But in running pre-packaged footage illegally shot by activists abroad — with little evidence it has been verified — the ABC has often appeared one-sided and part of the effort to turn voters against the sector.Fair-minded critics of Kenny admit his reports from Nauru were factual and informative. In the brouhaha, others unused to factual reporting of sensitive subjects hit out at the messenger, branding Kenny a “Partizan hack”, a wombat, a fraud and far worse. Our democracy needs more factual reporting and less hot air. Myopic journalism, driven by advocates, does not help voters make informed choices.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Riches of the Rhone</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>KENDALL HILL   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1498 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 October 2015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Travel</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2015 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From van Gogh’s Arles to the pick of French food and wine</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Road signs flash by like designer labels. Nice. Cannes. Antibes. St Tropez. The glamorous resorts of the French Riviera are all very well but it is Arles, our destination on this coach ride from Monte Carlo, that really stirs my imagination.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not just for the treasury of its ancient ruins, said to be second only to Rome; every monument I visit is world heritage listed. Or for the wild wonders of the Camargue Delta — the white horses, the black bulls and pink flamingoes. I love it mostly for the art, which is to be found everywhere.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Arles’s summer festival, a celebration of all things artistic that enriches this city of 52,000 from July until September, is in full swing. The program of 35 exhibitions and 250 artists — including Martin Parr, Matthieu Chedid and John Malkovich — fills a 68-page guide, but the city’s dedication to culture extends far beyond a brochure. As mayor Herve Schiavetti says: “Culture is a source of emancipation for everyone.” Hence the bold street paintings and photography that brighten its medieval walls. The art galleries and museums colonising every corner. And the enduring fascination with Vincent van Gogh, whose presence is surely more noticeable today than when he lived here 127 years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The artist follows me around Arles, or perhaps I am following him. In the Jardin d’Ete where families sprawl in the shade on a sweltering Sunday, his anguished face stares out from a bronze bust embedded in a pillar of stone. At Les Alyscamps, the early Christian burial ground where stone sarcophagi line an avenue of planes and pines, he is there in a reproduction of his L’Allee des Alyscamps and an excerpt from a letter to his brother, Theo.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think that you would love the fall of the leaves that I have done,” he wrote in November, 1888. “To the right and left are aligned the old Roman tombs. The sun is covered, like a carpet, by a thick layer of orange leaves and yellow fallen ones. Like snowflakes, they keep falling.” Van Gogh completed more than 300 paintings when he stayed in Arles and the nearby Saint-Paul <b>asylum</b> between 1888 and 1889. It was the zenith of his career; his indelible scenes clutter the city.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The setting of Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum (also known as Cafe Terrace at Night) is still very much here, and very much photographed by tourist pilgrims. The flower-filled and fountained courtyard of the Hotel Dieu hospital, where van Gogh rested after hacking off his ear, seems almost unchanged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even from the sun deck of my riverboat I can gaze up the Rhone and picture the old King’s Channel, busy with working boats and washerwomen, just as he painted it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Retracing the footsteps of a great artist like van Gogh would be the highlight of any French trip for me, but on Avalon Waterways’ Provence-Burgundy river cruise it is just one of many special moments.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Over the next week we will visit the highest aqueduct in the world, Europe’s largest Gothic edifice, mooch around Provencal food markets, explore Roman ruins and intact medieval villages, and acquaint ourselves with some of France’s most exceptional wine regions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Accommodation and transport is on Avalon Poetry II, a 2014 edition “suite ship’’ of 64 cabins and contemporary interiors that wouldn’t look out of place in a smart boutique hotel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Staterooms feature marble-tiled bathrooms with walk-in showers, very comfortable beds angled to best appreciate river scenery, and a wall of glass that slides open to create an instant balcony so passengers can hear, smell and feel Provence from the comfort of their cabins.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not that I spend much time in my cabin. With excellent tours and solo explorations, I only stay aboard for meals and sleep. There’s so much to see and do.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The main restaurant is abuzz with people talking excitedly about their first day in Provence. It is the gala welcome dinner tonight — vichysoisse shooters, goat’s cheese on toast, a very good rack of lamb with polenta — and the local wines are flowing freely as we cruise north towards Avignon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am just finishing the lamb when we enter the first of 15 locks Avalon Poetry II must navigate between here and Chalon-sur-Saone, its final port. We can rise more than 20m in some so it’s quite dramatic but, to be honest, eventually they start to feel like very slow <b>boat</b> elevators.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We emerge from the lock at twilight, the river midnight blue, silky and shimmering. Many of us are on the top deck, drinks in hand, as we cruise upriver to the famous Pont d’Avignon, thoughtfully illuminated for our viewing pleasure, before doubling back to moor beside a funfair and ferris wheel under a fat moon. It’s a magical introduction to Avignon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I love the convenience of river cruising. It’s like having a hotel parked in the heart of each city, usually only minutes from the main square. So on a morning run I can acquaint myself with the Gothic magnificence (and faint menace) of the Papal Palace, the City Hall and Main Square and explore character-filled allees and passages before Avignon even wakes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The dawn reconnaissance frees me to join guide Philippe on a coach tour through Rhone Valley vineyards to the Pont du Gard. The sight of the highest aqueduct in the world, its tiered limestone arches towering 50m above the River Gardon and shining golden in the morning light, is truly unforgettable.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Next stop Uzes, a beautifully preserved village — setting for the film Cyrano de Bergerac (the one with Monsieur Depardieu) — that’s home to a thriving artists’ community and a duke, who lives part-time in a 12th century castle in the town centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back aboard, executive chef Gonçalo Pegado is hosting a barbecue on the sun deck, a thoughtful gesture given most of the cruisers are from Australia and New Zealand and this is la canicule — the dog days of summer — when the mercury nudges 40C and cicadas are the constant tinnitus of our existence. Ideal for a barbie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For some the highlight of Avignon might be the ruins of the 12th-century bridge or the overwrought papal palace; for me it is the farmer’s market located conveniently alongside our mooring.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The vendors are charming and their produce, plucked fresh from the Provencal earth, is so fragrant and flavoursome I have an attack of nostalgia for the days when tomatoes tasted of sunshine and a juicy peach was a childhood joy. I stock up on both and supplement my on-board diet with the pure flavours of Provence for the rest of the cruise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s a special dinner that night in the Panorama Bistro, a degustation of 15 courses that fluctuate between haute cuisine and catering cuisine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I chat with Californian couple Jorge and Ann Garcia. They have done “many, many trips” with Avalon. “I am one of those people who sticks with something if it works,” Ann explains when I ask why she never tries the other river cruise lines.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Jorge reassures me I was right to skip that day’s excursion to Chateauneuf-du-Pape. “I bought a bottle there last time and it was the most insipid wine!” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But a couple of days later I make my own tour of Tain L’Hermitage when we dock at Tournon, and buy myself a bottle of the storied wine from Hermitage Hill. It is not in the slightest bit insipid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the tiny cathedral at Viviers, Avalon puts on a reed organ recital by maestro Valery Imbernon, a medley of tunes ranging from Pirates of the Caribbean to a southern gospel arrangement of Amazing Grace. In the archaeological gem of Vienne, guide Marion transports us back 2000 years to the birth of the Roman empire.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cruise continues to luminous Lyon and the vineyards of Burgundy and then, by coach, to Dijon and Paris.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Each day showcases the very best of French culture and savoir vivre. As river cruises go, this itinerary has something for everyone. And all of it for me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kendall Hill was a guest of <span class="companylink">Cathay Pacific</span> and Avalon Waterways.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Checklist <span class="companylink">Cathay Pacific</span> operates more than 70 flights a week from six cities in Australia to Hong Kong, with daily onward flights to Paris (twice-daily in summer). The stopover time can be as short as 1.5 hours; cathaypacific.com.au.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Avalon Waterways’ 11-day Rhone and Saone itinerary between the Cote d’Azur and Paris includes seven nights’ cruising and three in hotels (Monte Carlo and Paris). Departures aboard Avalon Poetry II in 2016 are priced from $4395 a person twin-share for a lower deck deluxe stateroom.More: 1300 230 234; avalonwaterways.com.au.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Pregnant <b>asylum</b> seeker loses control of her life</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tom Allard   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Entering the second trimester of her pregnancy, "Abyan" is a shattered woman.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Carrying the child, she says, of her rapist, the 23-year-old Somali <b>refugee</b> has four to six weeks before it becomes problematic to perform the abortion she first requested on September 1.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sick, confused, and racked by uncertainty, Abyan has said she still wants the termination, even after being returned to Nauru from Sydney by the Australian government after refusing two appointments at an abortion clinic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abyan spent six days in Australia and was traumatised by the experience. She now wants the termination in another country, prompting a frantic, complex and extremely difficult attempt by lawyers and supporters to arrange a third country for the procedure. Abortion, in Nauru, is illegal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"She is completely distressed about ending a pregnancy after so long," says Pamela Curr, the <b>refugee</b> advocate who speaks with her regularly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abyan fled the terrorist group <span class="companylink">al-Shabaab</span> in her war-torn homeland and has spent two years in detention. On Nauru, a desolate island on the equator with 10,000 inhabitants, Abyan says she is "very sick" as she waits and weighs her decision about termination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For one night, she left accommodation in the general population to seek the protection of the detention centre. The trigger, she says, was "media harassment" from journalist and former Liberal Party operative Chris Kenny, the first reporter allowed on to Nauru in 18 months.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Monday, Kenny interviewed her and reported her insistence that she didn't tell anyone in Australia she didn't want an abortion. What upset her exactly is uncertain but Kenny asked who raped her, and why she hadn't told police.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> can confirm detention centre staff were told by Abyan she was being "harassed" by Kenny and Australian immigration officials were informed. The next day, police and Kenny came to her home to ask for a statement about her sexual abuse. After the visits, the identity of Abyan is now widely known, as is her home, <b>refugee</b> activists say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There's no security at her accommodation. Anyone can come up and do anything," Curr says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There have been three reported sexual assaults of refugees outside the detention centres this year, including Abyan's. Between September 2012 and April 2015, detention centre operative Transfield Service logged 33 sexual assault incidents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Although Abyan has not gone to Nauru's police, two others have. Their experience helps explains Abyan's reluctance to follow suit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The investigation of an alleged rape of Somali woman "Najma", 26, whose distressed phone call to police in the hours after she had been abducted and raped was recorded and obtained by the media, found there was no assault. She was later threatened by Nauru's Justice Minister David Adeang with being charged with making a false complaint.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having been picked up by police battered and half-naked after being raped outside Nauru's detention centre, Syrian <b>refugee</b> "Nazanin" was left in a police van en route to the station. The police, ABC's Lateline reports, watched fireworks for 45 minutes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nazanin was then reportedly left in an undressed state for hours while police interviewed her. Police have not rejected her complaint but cannot find the perpetrators.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Abyan is becoming a totem of Australia's harsh offshore processing system for refugees. As the government comes under pressure from the Greens, and human rights and medical activists, Abyan's experience has become embroiled in competing claims. The fog of secrecy surrounding border protection policy means the facts surrounding her time in Australia are easily contested and hard to independently verify.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's first comment after Abyan's departure was "she had decided not to proceed with the termination". Abyan would dispute his assessment in a letter obtained by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> and in an interview she gave Kenny.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Senate estimates, Neil Skill, the immigration official who authorised forced exit from Australia, gave a more nuanced explanation:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I have seen advice from two medical professionals indicating that she had declined to undergo the procedure on the day and also declined the offer of a scheduled appointment in a week's time. On the back of that information, I made the determination that there is no medical procedure at this point of time and that the individual should return to Nauru."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The caveat "at this time" was used repeatedly and accords with Abyan's insistence she never told medical staff in Australia she wanted to keep the baby.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton outlined the appointments Abyan had with medical staff, including doctors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The arrival on Nauru of Kenny - a former chief of staff to Turnbull and now associate editor of The Australian - also generated rancour and competing claims, with the combative conservative battling vitriolic abuse on social media. Curr says she was on the phone to Abyan when she heard her start screaming, allegedly after sighting the police and Kenny arriving for his second visit. Curr says the <b>refugee</b> was distressed and told Kenny and a photographer to "go away".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kenny denies he bullied Abyan or acted in cahoots with police. Rather, he spotted them by chance and followed them to Abyan's house. He says she was "distressed" when they met but invited him into her house for the interview, with her flatmate acting as interpreter. Even after the first interview upset Abyan, she agreed to talk again, and have a photo taken as long as it didn't identify her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What is not in dispute is that Abyan complained of media harassment, went to a medical clinic and was moved to the detention centre after the first encounter. Kenny reported the development himself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The journalist would not, however, comment on whether the $8000 non-refundable visa application fee demanded by Nauru was waived. The fee blocks many journalists from trying to get a visa, especially as media companies who have paid it have been stalled, or rejected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is adamant that no one on Nauru will be resettled in Australia. However, there are concerns people smugglers may send more boats to Australia. And the <b>asylum</b> seeker policy is being tested at home too.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some 240 <b>asylum</b> seekers have been returned to Australia for medical care from Nauru and Manus Island after lawyers launched a High Court action to have offshore processing ruled unconstitutional.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The court case and the injunction that's keeping those <b>asylum</b> seekers in Australia appears, in part, behind Abyan's return to Nauru. Indeed, Dutton suggested Abyan was in Australia looking for a "migration outcome", something her lawyer George Newhouse denies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Either way, after being informed by two health workers that Abyan had declined the two abortion appointments, Neil Skill moved quickly. He worked into Wednesday evening to organise a charter jet for Nauru. It cost an estimated $100,000 to get her out of Australia on Friday, even though there were commercial flights available two days later.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The charter was necessary, says Skill, because Abyan was "a risk with regard to the non-compliance and disrupting the airline".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Abyan, 15 weeks pregnant at the time she left, was only rejecting an abortion "at this time", it is astonishing officials would take such a drastic step. They would surely know it would be likely to cause additional trauma.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The hardline treatment of Abyan will send a clear message of deterrence to would-be <b>boat</b> people and people smugglers. The rest of the world, though, is hearing a different message: a vulnerable woman's harrowing story of callous treatment by the Australian government.</p>
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